Fluid dampener

[69 roadrunner]

What are the pros and cons of a fluid dampener. Thanks RR

 

[benno440]

I am not sure of any cons, but i have heard they are awesome and am just waiting on mine to turn up, sorry for not much help

 

[68 HEMI GTS]

ATI is the best. fluiddamper is also good, just after it sits for a while the fluid moves to the lower part and its initially out of balance when you first fire the motor.

 

[67 coronet]

if you mean in general,then they allow the eng to revup a bit faster by reducing the weight of the spinning mass at the dampner for a brief moment durring acceleration.once at rpm the mass slowly catches up.only con i can think of is that the motor is slightly out of balance for a moment,but i have not heard of that causing any sort of problems.

 

[shag766]

this isn't fluid but bearings. i had a big motor build by a big reputable place in cali and they put a rattler damper on it. i would guess it is the same theory as the fluid. its a little odd listening the bearings going round but if these guys did it i am in.

 

[Malicious]

If your talking the brand 'Fluidamper' they claim there balancers use a gel, not a fluid per say. The fluid part is just marketing.

The centrifugal force of the spinning balancer is supposed to even out the gel to give better balancing results then tradition rubber bound balancers.

I was going to run one on another hi-powered car I have but I'm about to sell it off instead.

The biggest con is in more extreme power applications, that it wont handle the power and will split. While something like the ATI will possible fail at about the same power, you can rebuilt the ATI unit, so your not out of pocket any where near as much. Down side of the ATI is that it does need to be rebuilt occasionally.

This is all based on my last engine build. I assume that Mopar's use a two part dampened balancer yeah? If not, IGNORE ME! ;)

 

[65 Plymouth Satellite 426]

I Chose The Name Brand Fluidamper!