How light should you go for a lightweight flywheel?

kinkyllama · Post by **kinkyllama** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:57 pm

I'm probably going to make lightweight flywheels based of the woos flat styles since people dont like the idea of buying a used flywheel to go with the clutch kits I sell. But I was woundering, how light should I go? What are the advantages of disadvanatages of a lightweight flywheel?

Know of any articles that touch up on this?

Thanks!
Danny

gse_turbo · Post by **gse_turbo** » Thu May 03, 2007 7:12 pm

we'er at the same point. i just sent mine in to have the back cut down.
from what i've learned is that you want to ga as light as possible without loosing stucture.
you want to cut wait from the flywheel in a way that will be able to spread out the load of the clutch and plate.
the advanatage is that you will get a faster spool which is the great for road racing and turbo apps, you can drop most of you turbo lag.

the disadvanatage is that you are running the risk of blowing the flywheel apart cause the more you cut away the easier it can take on heat damage.
if you use an aluminum you will eat up the face a lot faster

i'm using the lemans step flywheel, it's being cut 1/4" from the back, resurfaced and rebalanced.
to keep the haet and ware down, i'm using a dual-friction clutch, "fiber-tough" 9 puck to the flywheel and a ceramic 9 puck to the preasure plate.

garrett

GsiTurbo · Post by **GsiTurbo** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:30 pm

Ummm...see my latest post and rethink any ideas of making your OE flywheel lighter.