Lighter flywheel and clutch for the road anybody?

[lone granger]

anyone fitted above, if so from whom and what are the results and cost?

[gingerprince]

lone granger said:

anyone fitted above, if so from whom and what are the results and cost?

I'm no expert but I would expect no benefit from fitting this to a Griffith.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the flywheel in the Griffith is already very light.

One of the "effects" of a lightweight flywheel (apart from performance gains due to essentially lightening the drivetrain), but revs drop off very quickly.

Now certainly in my Griffith, if I blip the throttle up to 4000rpm or so, they drop almost straight back to tickover. Do the same in a standard car, and it'll take maybe a second or so to settle down.

[shpub]

There is light and light depending on how big your pockets. The smaller the flywheel, the smaller the clutch and extreme very small flywheels require multi plate paddle clutches which are expensive and very off on in operation. They also need different starter motors. John Eales does them... budget around £1500 for the kit. If you don't want to go that far, there are lightened same diameter units available from John but the chances are that you have something similar in the first place.

[starmist]

If you want the engine to spool up faster when you press the throttle, look at multi throttle plenums for the same sort of money as the clutch kit shpub was talking about.

This way you are getting more air into the engine as well.

[v8 racing]

starmist is dead right if you have money burning a hole in your pocket go for the act carbon plenum, you allready have the lightest flywheel you can get without going to alluminium which i have to say are crap for a road car and you get big hp increases to boot