Flywheels...Cossie vs Essex

[waylison]

Hi All

I'm having problems with breaking the center of the standard clutch plate on my RS3100 Essex V6 and someone suggested swapping to a Cossie flywheel so I could uprate the clutch plate.

Any one know what the difference between the two flywheels are, if they will swap (bolt holes the same etc) or has anyone done it and what was the benefits?

Thanks in advance,
Wayne.

Gilbern Invader MkII
RS3100
Triple Webers
Type 9 5 speed box.

Edited by waylison on Thursday 2nd April 10:16

[That Daddy]

Speak to http://www.burtonpower.com/ but no way is that a direct swap

[tr7v8]

Pretty sure that the V6 has some level of balancing within the flywheel so that will have to be taken into account.

[That Daddy]

tr7v8 said:

Pretty sure that the V6 has some level of balancing within the flywheel so that will have to be taken into account.

that will be the decider methinks

[waylison]

That explains things some more. The Guy who suggested the swap has a 2.8i in his Gilbern, so that possibly is a direct swap.

There definitely is balancing on the Essex flywheel because I had it done I had the whole engine balanced.

I'll try a race clutch to see if that sorts it, but it's a right pain having to take the box out each time.

Too much grunt in the old girl!

Thanks Guys

[stevieturbo]

Why not just get a stronger friction plate made ?

[That Daddy]

stevieturbo said:

Why not just get a stronger friction plate made ?

Beat me to it Stevie,thats what i had to do with my X Flow years back even though i had the flywheel modded to take the Lotus size clutch,got mine through AP from memory but no problems after that,it lunched 2 driven plates up until that point the pieces just fell out as i removed the clutch cover big H/P big bills Waylison the Cosworth V6 is based on the Cologne bottom end so that's probably why its a good mod but the Essex does not share anything with the Cologne/Cosworth apart from the fact its Ford and its a V6

[waylison]

Thanks guys for all the advice.

Had a mechanic friend of mine look at the bits of the clutch plate, and without checking the numbers, he thinks it's probably from a 1.8 or 2.0 sierra! So there's no way the center torque springs could cope with the power delivered by the V6. So I'm now ordering a fast road clutch complete. Lets start again

Wayne