What Harmonic Balancer should I get?

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What Harmonic Balancer should I get? 95 5.0 vert. I want the best Harmonic Balancer for a street preformance car.

 

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Your price range and expectations for your engine are really what it depends on. If you're not spinning some high RPMs, you may not have the need for an SFI approved balancer. If you are, Pro Products (same manufacturer as the Typhoon intake) sells an SFI approved balancer that's supposed to be a high quality piece from what I've read. They run in the $100 range from what I recall. You may not even need an SFI balancer if you're planning, or have already done a mild build consisting of just H/C/I and a stock shortblock though. There's several of us (myself included) who are just running factory replacements with mild builds. Pioneer is the brand that stands out in my mind as the one many of us recommend for a factory replacement.

 

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Since you are a noob and all

and

You finally found the best place for trustworthy info

94-95 :SNSign:

I invested 60 seconds ... just for you my SN friend

http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=602381&highlight=pioneer

http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=596453&highlight=pioneer

http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=568533&highlight=pioneer

http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=518313&highlight=pioneer

Others before you have helpful info easily available for your benefit

Welcome to our little place on the web

Grady

 

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look into romac, they make good stuff too.

 

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I think I may hace a good stocker sitting around from the old 306. $25 bux if I can find it. PM me if interested.

 

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Oh wow I didnt see the date on this thread.

 

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go-stang5.0 said:

Oh wow I didnt see the date on this thread.

Click to expand...

I see Yesterday, 04:41 AM

 

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a-spec FD said:

What Harmonic Balancer should I get? 95 5.0 vert. I want the best Harmonic Balancer for a street preformance car.

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I got the Professional Products SFI-approved balancer and was very pleased w/ the install and the price.

Have also helped a friend install another Pro Products balancer and it was equally as easy and also works well for him.

Wes

 

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romac would be my choice.

 

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pinoeer FTW

 

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I was curious on knowing what SFI approved means? like what does SFI stand for?

 

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From the og racing web site,

The SFI Foundation, Inc. (SFI) is a non-profit organization established to issue and administer standards (or specifications) for specialty/performance automotive and racing equipment, with the goal of promoting quality and reliability in the design, manufacture and application of these products. SFI standards are developed at the request of various manufacturers and/or race sanctioning bodies. The SFI Technical Committee initiates the specification drafting process, and encourages industry-wide participation in finalizing these specs. Once a standard is enacted, participation by any manufacturer is strictly voluntary. However, if a manufacturer agrees to comply with an SFI spec and advertise its products as such, it is subject to ongoing inspections and testing of its processes and equipment to ensure continuing compliance. For more information about SFI and its programs, visit their website at www.sfifoundation.com. While "SFI" originally stood for "SEMA Foundation, Inc.," SFI now operates independently of the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Manufacturers' Association) organization, and simply retains the original acronym as its name.

 

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Romac is nice but expensive. I would recommend the Pioneer SFI balancer. I think I got mine for about $130

 

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Car Craft or Hotrod or one of those suckers has their coverage of the annual engine builder's challenge - lot of Fords in the runnings... check out the balancers they used.

These guys know their stuff.

Wes

 

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I have the non SFI Pro products balancer very happy with quality and performance.

 

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I think both the sfi Romac and Pioneer HB's are quality parts

I have no idea if one is better than the other

I did an exhaustive search on the sfi Pioneer before I got mine

I found no negative stuff about it

Since you don't have all the hassles of installation with it
like you see peeps talk about with Romac's
and
The Pioneer could bought for a bit less

The decision for me was plain and simple at that point

btw ... if you are gonna spin it pretty good ........
IMHO ... sfi quality is worth the price

Grady