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Old 11-18-2005, 02:53 PM
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buy a lightened flywheel
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Old 11-18-2005, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by trebor_nordap
buy a lightened flywheel
Yea, if your going to go all out with it and try to make it as light as one you would buy, I wouldn't even bother. Shaving off that much weight is putting you on thin ice.
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2 Things:


1) Who has the picture of the DSM with the lightened shaved stock flywheel that SHOT through the hood?

2) A dude's buddy on here got his eye jacked up (think lost sight in one eye) from one breaking apart.


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Lighten the stocker to 3lbs and buy one of these for your passenger. I hear it's "fantastic"

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Jeff has lightened stock flywheels with no problems.
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Default Re: How Much Weight Can a Machine Shop Take Off The Flywheel?

Originally Posted by samson
2 Things:


1) Who has the picture of the DSM with the lightened shaved stock flywheel that SHOT through the hood?

2) A dude's buddy on here got his eye jacked up (think lost sight in one eye) from one breaking apart.


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I've got the pics and the video, Scot is local to me. The car that exploded the flywheel was featured in Turbo, then Scot sold the car to John Shepard.

http://www.bettendorf.com/~mrbone/pi...ywheelboom.wmv





To have my stocker cut down to 12.25 pounds, stepped properly to maintain even overall thickness and THEN balanced was $175.



You can buy a 12 pounder off ebay for $200.........
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Old 11-18-2005, 04:57 PM
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I have a friend that has a glass eye from when he was at the drag strip and a flywheel exploded on a car without a scatter shield.He was sitting in the stands when he was struck by a piece of shrapnel from the flywheel.
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Old 11-18-2005, 05:30 PM
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Yep. Those are the EXACT two people I was talking about. Thanks fellas, sorry I couldn't recall who had those stories. For what it's worth; buy a lightened one.


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Had mine cut down. It broke after about 100miles. Fucked up alot of ----.
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Old 11-18-2005, 07:22 PM
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Well, I just called the machine shop closest to me and he told me that the last time he tried to lighten a flywheel it nearly broke in half and he had to buy a new one for the customer so he doesnt want to even try it again.

So I bought an 11lb one from LSD


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