Lightening flywheel
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I want to lighten up my stock flywheel a little bit and I was wondering where the best place to take weight off the wheel would be. On my bathroom scale the wheel weighs about 17 pounds and I was hoping to lighten it up to about 12 pounds. I'm pretty sure this can be easily done but I'm not 100% sure where to lose weight on it. I was thinking I could lose a little bit on the back side where there seems to be a little lip where it mounts to the crank. Where else is a good place?
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David how light is that flywheel? Will cutting that much material cause problems with the reference and speed sensors?
I know Fidanza makes lightened aluminum flywheels but I don't really feel like shelling out mad bucks to get one from them. I'll be getting an FRwilks chip to help with the cut out problem so it shouldn't be a big deal.
I know Fidanza makes lightened aluminum flywheels but I don't really feel like shelling out mad bucks to get one from them. I'll be getting an FRwilks chip to help with the cut out problem so it shouldn't be a big deal.
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Originally Posted by AznDrgn
David how light is that flywheel? Will cutting that much material cause problems with the reference and speed sensors?
I know Fidanza makes lightened aluminum flywheels but I don't really feel like shelling out mad bucks to get one from them. I'll be getting an FRwilks chip to help with the cut out problem so it shouldn't be a big deal.
I know Fidanza makes lightened aluminum flywheels but I don't really feel like shelling out mad bucks to get one from them. I'll be getting an FRwilks chip to help with the cut out problem so it shouldn't be a big deal.
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Originally Posted by Dan Gallagher
Grab a fidanza on ebay for $300 I wouldnt call that mad bucks
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Originally Posted by AznDrgn
David how light is that flywheel? Will cutting that much material cause problems with the reference and speed sensors?
I know Fidanza makes lightened aluminum flywheels but I don't really feel like shelling out mad bucks to get one from them. I'll be getting an FRwilks chip to help with the cut out problem so it shouldn't be a big deal.
I know Fidanza makes lightened aluminum flywheels but I don't really feel like shelling out mad bucks to get one from them. I'll be getting an FRwilks chip to help with the cut out problem so it shouldn't be a big deal.
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Originally Posted by adrian_jaye
what are you hoping to achieve by lightening the flywheel ?
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With faster revving comes the propensity for the RPMs to drop REALLY fast as well. Indeed, you can kill the car (mine used to die often). If you do a lot of driving in traffic I dont think you will like it.
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Originally Posted by Matt H
With faster revving comes the propensity for the RPMs to drop REALLY fast as well. Indeed, you can kill the car (mine used to die often). If you do a lot of driving in traffic I dont think you will like it.