The harmonic damper located on the front of the crankshaft serves a very important purpose. It's designed to absorb the resonate harmonics that can otherwise lead to crankshaft failure. It's assembled ...
No matter how well-tuned it is, your race engine is a grumbling beast. Consider that there are four controlled explosions with every turn of the crankshaft in a V-8 engine. At 7,000 rpm, the spark ...