Balancing 356 B conrods

I am currently rebuilding a 1962 75 super 356 engine. I intend to weight match the conrods and am building a jig for this,but information of the best place on the rod to remove material is not avaliable. Has any body here had experience of this and give advice.
Many thanks Nigel

Are you rebuilding with parts (all the con rods) from the same engine? If so suspect they are already balanced.

Nigel,
It's so cheap to have them balanced and, before you balance the connecting rods, I'd make sure they are fitted with new small end bushings. The shop that installs the bushings can also balance them.

Most shops remove metal as needed to make the rods balance, usually it's a small amount and they may remove metal from various points on the end cap and the top of the piston pin hole

Thanks for the info, slight change of plan I was going to use the standard Rods from the engine that I broke down, But I have managed to source at a good price a set of 912 rods which are stronger.
I am not sure how close the factory matched the rods but working on the principle 'that for every gram out of balance, the working component weight squares per thousand rpm' it is worth checking that they are spot on. I want to do the work on this engine myself and use it as a learning curve as I have run out of jobs to do on the car. So next job will be to make the jig and start checking before i get the dremel out.

Many thanks again Nigel

here are some thoughts on balancing rods....

http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/CorvAIRCRAFT/RodBalance2.html

If you haven't done so already, buy yourself the set of videos or DVDs on rebuilding 356/912 engines from HCP Research...I believe Harry shows how to do this in the video. I'll be listing my set of VHS tapes on Ebay some day soon....

He also discusses this in at least one of his books I'm sure.

Brian

Harry Pellow's death was a true loss to the 356 crowd. The man was a master of the Porsche 4 cylinder engine.

For sure Larry!!

I never met the man as I live 1,000's of kms away but we did talk on the phone numerous times as I rebuilt my 912 engine. He was a great source of information as well as a very interesting character. I truly enjoy reading his various stories of 356s in his book The ABC's of 356 (and 912) engines.

Isn't Adrian Harry's son? Or am I just asuming to much. I understand he is pretty good. on bugs also.

I have no dissputes on Larrys abilities on german cars. and apreciate his input and help. He would be your best bet.

Try This , Kam motors.com I think they had big ties to Harry Pellows. and should be able to answer any questions you put to them.

That is if they are willing to share the knowledge?