UPDATE: I've received my rebuilt PP back from Ram--total turnaround time was 2 weeks. Cost to rebuild and modify it for counterweights was half of a new PP.





Note the arm above with the hole in it--this gives a place to hang the counterweights, which are actually bolts, nuts, and (if desired) washers. The head of the bolt faces the direction of rotation:



The arms themselves should also act as a CW, whose purpose is to assist the lock up the PP in higher RPM's. The CW's can be made out of steel or aluminum and you can use different lengths. You can also mix the 2 materials. A gram scale is required to determine the differences in the parts. Equal weight must be applied to all 3 PP arms.

Note that RAM re-certified the PP as meeting SFI 1.2. They etched over the old markings and applied a new sticker.

The flywheel was re-ground on a blanchard grinder:



Although the disc looked OK and just glazed, I decided to buy a new one to match the resurfaced parts:



Assembly bolted to back of motor. All 3 arms shown will have a 3/4" bolt and nut installed:



To make it easier to swap CW's. I decided to punch a window in the bottom of my Lakewood scattershield.



This is not NHRA approved as you cannot modify the scattershield in any way. My home track does not check such things at my level of competition. My scattershield is over 10 years old (which makes it out of date by over 8 years) and has already been modified for the base pressure adjustment. I also added a small hole on the bottom to check air gap. It can be seen just in front of the new rectangular access hole shown above. The other rectangular hole is for the clutch fork.





Here is a pic of the throwout bearing that I used. It is a HD stock replacement part. Note the grease zerk on the right.

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Dennis
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65' STANG (3330 lbs), 393W NA, Toploader 4 Spd, 4:11, AFR 205's, Vic Jr. Intake, CI Custom SFT, 750dp, 11.0 CR

11.26@122.83mph