Stroke with only Pistons and Crank?

CNC-Dude said

The crank wont be balanced unless you buy a kit with all the pieces together. If you buy the crank separately, whoever you buy it from wont know what rods and piston and stuff you will be using to be able to balance it. And that puts all the burden on you to provide all that info to the person that will balance it. If you transpose a number or if they do you can have a big problem, and that has happened. Plus when you buy a kit you usually get a package deal as opposed to buying the parts individually.

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Sorry but i would not buy a kit with a balanced crank. Once you get the kit...look at the box of rods....bet they are all sealed up still...meaning they never weighted the rods individually....just took the numbers off the box...same thing with the pistons....just used the numbers on the box....Was using a machine shop that was doing the same thing but charging me full price for a balance job ....nope..never been back.....
I used HBR in Vegas...as you can see from the previous post everything is weighted individually ....showing calculations to get bobweight....and given a print out so that if anything is damaged it can be replaced .....plus he keeps a copy of the balance job. I asked Rick about the Kit balance job and he just laughed saying they have fixed many of them...If you are going to several thousands on a kit have it balanced correctly...