ok....i know of a couple people who run without balancer shafts in their eclipses...supposedly they get a lot more power out of them that way...what i wanna know is if its possible to do it on a lude (5th gen h22). if so how would i go about doing it....my whole rotating assembly has been balanced and the whole nine....but my auto tensioner just took a **** and destroyed the balancer shaft assembly and we still wont know if theres damage to the actual shaft until we crank the motor. if i could get rid of the headache of replacing that damn thing without loosing alot of reliability it would be nice. any help would be nice...thanks in advance.

 

Take the belt off, leave the shafts in to keep your oil pressure.

 

How did a failing auto tensioner destroy the balance shafts assembly?

There are other, recent threads on running without balance shatfts. Do a search.

 

the tensionor took a dump....the timing belt jumped....and all hell broke loose between the timing belt covers...the covers look like art work...the crank sensor is in like 3 peices....and the balancer shaft pulley was mangled...

 

I took mine off a week ago...noticeable hp gain....there is a slight vibration throughout tho. At idle you can feel the motor vibrating everything a little bit. My car is a "race" car so i don't mind, i got a daily driver but if its your daily driver, i'd prolly be tempted to put it all back together.