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Originally Posted by Mikem53
How can balance shafts be irrelevant to the subject when they are used for the purpose of "balancing" the rotating mass of an engine that is not balanced by design?
Whereas the boxer engine needs no special device to mask the vibrations.
What you perceive as smoothness is balance shafts, hydraulic motor mounts, harmonic balancers... Etc...
The point is, the boxer engine is inherently smoother by design than any inline 4 banger.. What you feel as the end result is due to many other things which cause NVH..
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So in a car designed all about feel, isn't the end result the most important thing anyway? He has a point, Honda motors feel a lot smoother and more refined than this boxer motor. Thing feels like a tractor at low RPMs and like it might explode at high ones. I love my FRS, but if I could put a Honda K20z3 in it I probably would hahaha