lightened and balenced flywheel?

[badchild]

How much of a difference do they make? would it be worth my while getting one? all im planning is a fast road cam with a twin choke weber on a 1600 xflow, cheers, Ryan

[Vista]

A heavy flywheel is essentially there to help with a smooth tick over, the more it weighs, the more work the engine must do to turn it therefore the greater your gearing losses.

 

So yes it does make a difference in so far as it reduces your gearing losses and it allows your engine to rev quicker and more freely. How much of a difference however I'm afraid I can't tell you.

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

im also unable to tell you how much difference it makes

 

but in my escort i fitted one to a pinto

 

so i went from 1300 crossflow to 2l pinto with unknown history

 

but as far as i could tell it was standard pinto

 

i polihed the head fitted a very light fly wheel

 

and its the fastest 2l pinto ive ever driven it reved beautifully it was on a down draught carb with kn filter and it wasnt lumpy atall

 

so id say go for it

 

id do it again

[badchild]

Cheers fella's that cleared that up for me, one popped up on flea bay and i wasn't sure on it

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

go for it

[GT_Jim]

bascially reducing the weight allows the engine to rev quicker than the standard flywheel but the loss weight will lower the centrifugal forces which will lower the intertia so in theory you will lose torque but its not really noticeable as the engine is quicker reving

[X-pack-Glyn]

ive driven a 2 litre pinto with a 4kg flywheel and it was too much, revved like a bike but impossible to handle in 1st and 2nd and didnt like hills.