Balance Shaft - Production Implementations

Production Implementations

Other manufacturers having produced engines with one or two balance shafts include:

• Alfa Romeo 2.0L four-cylinder, as fitted to the Alfa Romeo 156
• BMW K75 motorcycle
• Chrysler - K engine 2.4 L and 2.5 L Neon engine
• Ford Modular engine V10
• Ford Taunus V4 engine
• General Motors
  • Buick 3800 V6
  • GM Atlas engine four- and five-cylinder engines (two balance shafts)
  • GM Quad-4 engine, as used in the 1995 Pontiac Sunfire
  • Ecotec Family II
  • GM Vortec engine V-6 (single balance shaft)Ecotec
  • Medium Gasoline Engine
• Honda 2.2 L (F22) four-cylinder engine
• Honda Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle (1997)
• Honda Honda CRF450 motorcycle
• Kawasaki Kawasaki Z440LTD
• Kawasaki Kawasaki_ZX-14 & Kawasaki_1400GTR (aka Concours 14) motorcycles (same powerplant)
• Mazda's 2.3L MZR engine (two balance shafts)
• Mercedes-Benz M112 and M272 V-6 engines
• Mitsubishi 'Astron' engine
• Nissan 2.5L (QR25DE) four-cylinder engine
• Porsche 2.5L, 2.7L and 3.0L inline four-cylinder engines
• Subaru EF engine
• Tata Nano
• Toyota 2.4L (2AZ-FE), 2.5L (2AR-FE), 2.7L (1AR-FE) 3.0l 7mge 7mgte
• Saab H engine
• Volvo B234F, B204GT and B204FT (four-cylinder, two balance shafts, 16V-head, used in 700 and 900 series)
• VW AG BHW 2.0L turbodiesel (Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda) (4-cyl, W8 engine, two balance shafts, chain or gear drives)

Numerous motorcycle engines, particularly parallel twins and larger single-cylinder engines have employed balance shaft systems as well. Other systems used in place of balance shafts include a "dummy connecting rod" in Ducati Supermono engines and hinged counterweights on the crank as used in BMW F800 motorcycles.