Main cap girdles re-discussed

frosty_the_punk said

It's my opinion that simply saying "they don't work" isn't helpful to a conversation about main cap girdles.

In other applications, you betcha they do.

So if they don't/can't work in a SBM... I'd be interested to know why.

Is there something about a SBM that makes them incompatible with an effective main cap girdle?

Or is it simply that an effective bespoke main cap girdle *could* be made.. but never has been?

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In what applications have YOU seen them work?

What engine did you build that **** it’s guts out and you installed a girdle and it went out and rotated the earth?

Ive installed many of those and not one did a damned thing. They can’t. They move the load to a place it shouldn’t be when it shouldn’t be there. Just like stud girdles for stud mounted rockers.

Ever seen what happens when you excite a tuning fork and then get it close to another fork? It will excite the other fork without touching it.

Everything has a resonance frequency. This stuff all moves around.

Stud girdles, like filling a block with concrete is at best a bandaid. They don’t fix anything. Main bearings don’t like.

Rather than waste money a time on a girdle if you want to help the block and crank use aluminum rods and a damper that doesn’t use rubber bands.

That investment will actually do something. A girdle just makes your wallet lighter.