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Old 11-19-2014, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by blykins View Post
Yep. I'm really surprised that Ford is toying with this. Has been proven to be bad design for decades.
Other than a lack of secondary balancing, are there other reasons the design is bad? There have been some high end cars that have used flat plane cranks, though I can't think of any daily driver type cars.
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