lightened flywheel
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Fitting a lighter flywheel :
Improves acceleration
Revs faster
But Poorer driving due to less flywheel mass (jerky in traffic..)
If you do this - take it to a RV8 specialist and not the local
engine shop .. if it breaks you will know about it.
There are also billet steel and alumimum jobbies for sale :
www.v8tuner.co.uk/category.php?id=20
At a price.
This explains all :
www.pumaracing.co.uk/FLYWHEEL.htm
Improves acceleration
Revs faster
But Poorer driving due to less flywheel mass (jerky in traffic..)
If you do this - take it to a RV8 specialist and not the local
engine shop .. if it breaks you will know about it.
There are also billet steel and alumimum jobbies for sale :
www.v8tuner.co.uk/category.php?id=20
At a price.
This explains all :
www.pumaracing.co.uk/FLYWHEEL.htm
Edited by rev-erend on Friday 5th January 20:24
Depends on where you're starting from, most stuff designed in the 70's and 80's ie a rover V8 is a bit on heavy side and can stand to lose about 25-30% with little effect on idle quality, just be carefuel where you take it from. do it in the wrong spot and the flywheel can be seriously weakened and possibly explode.....
Mat
Mat
). Spins up like a good un. Behaves to some extent in traffic. Not sure how much he took off/lost/magiced or whatever the process is.Everyone told me not to buy the lightest flywheel for my Caterham because it would be jerky and difficult to use on the road. That was just claptrap. I bought one and it worked fine. Any momentum stored by the flywheel will be dissipated so very soon after you first engage the clutch that it's irrelevant. You still need to apply the right foot.
If it'll idle, it'll be fine. I suspect it'd idle with a piece of cardboard in place of the flywheel. The RV8 crank alone weighs a fair bit, a clutch is usually the component you can't reduce the weight of, and they're bloody heavy. I suspect the whole rotating mass could stand to lose several Kgs.
If it'll idle, it'll be fine. I suspect it'd idle with a piece of cardboard in place of the flywheel. The RV8 crank alone weighs a fair bit, a clutch is usually the component you can't reduce the weight of, and they're bloody heavy. I suspect the whole rotating mass could stand to lose several Kgs.
the one i have weighs 7 kilos, the original was 14 kilos, on tick over and revving up it feels the same.
i heard you would loose torque, but i have reduced wheel size to 13in with slicks and put the flywheel in to get more gear changes really, as on a track i was in third all the time still good but room for improvement.
thanks for the advise kids.
i heard you would loose torque, but i have reduced wheel size to 13in with slicks and put the flywheel in to get more gear changes really, as on a track i was in third all the time still good but room for improvement.
thanks for the advise kids.
My old Griff had a lightened flywheel at the time it had the higher cam and oversized valves fitted.
What it meant was that the engine revved much, much more freely and all the work combined shifter the torque curve up and so the real power came in later and lasted longer.
It meant that you could no longer drive around town in top and that to get the power you had to start using the box more but that was exactly what I was looking for. I wanted a car which was more involving for me.
It didn't have any great effect on the idle or shunting.
What it meant was that the engine revved much, much more freely and all the work combined shifter the torque curve up and so the real power came in later and lasted longer.
It meant that you could no longer drive around town in top and that to get the power you had to start using the box more but that was exactly what I was looking for. I wanted a car which was more involving for me.
It didn't have any great effect on the idle or shunting.
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