re mr noisy engine in article r oe c usenet ins cwru edu aas po cwru edu andrew a spencer writes nice theory too bad the mr s never came with a four cylinder over liters more like or did they were the nonturbo mr ii s or some such foot in mouth again drew the first generation mr s were s which were very smooth i d be real surprised if the original poster was talking about a st generation car the second generation cars were for the non turbo and for the turbo i drove the non turbo and calling it unpleasant is to be kind to it i also understand that anyone using balancing shafts on four cylinders must pay saab a royalty for using their patented design like porsche s i wrong and wrong mitsubishi owns the patent which has since expired which is why everybody with a shred of integrity is putting balance shafts into their big s the notable exception is nissan and only for the us market suckers i guess we need to write to c d and start telling them to publish graphs for engine vibration over rpm then you ll see usenet discussions of the form engine a has peak vibrations db less than engine b therefore engine a is better than engine b eliot
