ORIGINAL: digital_trucker
Why would a desaxed cylinder be heavier? It's just a slightly offset cylinder...?
Every desaxed cylinder I've seen was in a twingle. If you are just going to offset it, what for? Mopar used to put the piston pin offset to cure piston slap when cold, the racers used to put them in backwards and gained maybe one horsepower in a three fifty horse engine, that's 1/3 of 1%.
ORIGINAL: digital_trucker
I didn't know about the vibration issue...maybe that sears didn't have a sufficient counterbalance on the crank?
It was made by Sachs, it's probably a tough engine to balance.