wait up...$600 to balance it? Holy shmolly, are they using gold as the added weight? My shop charges $75 to balance a crank (plus tungsten) if you bring in 1 equalized piston pack (you can do that yourself with a good scale and a belt sander) The guy told me the weight on the little end is the only thing you need to touch to get the 8 all the same weight, same with the 8 cap pad, then you weight all the bolts, nuts, bearings, pistons and pins and grind on them all to get them to equal the lightest of of the series. Pistons were the worst in my case. Had to take weight out of the pin as there was little to take out of the AL piston itself. My pistons were lighter than stockers so there was no added tungsten, and the cast stroker crank was very close to stock bobweight. Balancing the rods with a fixture to weigh the big and little ends as a unit is way too anal, NASCAR stuff says he.