Re: How Much Weight Can a Machine Shop Take Off The Flywheel?
 

buy a lightened flywheel

Re: How Much Weight Can a Machine Shop Take Off The 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.

Re: How Much Weight Can a Machine Shop Take Off The Flywheel?
 

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.


JP

Re: How Much Weight Can a Machine Shop Take Off The Flywheel?
 

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

http://www.projectgrizzly.net/grizzly_keyart2.jpg

Re: How Much Weight Can a Machine Shop Take Off The Flywheel?
 

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

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

http://www.bettendorf.com/~mrbone/pi...wheelboom1.jpg

http://www.bettendorf.com/~mrbone/pi...wheelboom2.jpg

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

http://www.bettendorf.com/~mrbone/pi...utFlywheel.jpg

You can buy a 12 pounder off ebay for $200.........

Re: How Much Weight Can a Machine Shop Take Off The Flywheel?
 

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.

Re: How Much Weight Can a Machine Shop Take Off The Flywheel?
 

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.


JP

Re: How Much Weight Can a Machine Shop Take Off The Flywheel?
 

Had mine cut down. It broke after about 100miles. Fucked up alot of ----.

Re: How Much Weight Can a Machine Shop Take Off The Flywheel?
 

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 :y