Flywheel Woes
 

I recently purchased a lightened flywheel from screedbay, it is an XACT Prolite 8.5lbs flywheel, unfortunately ebay did not state that this is recomended for racing applications.... after receiving it, there was an instructional pamphlet that came with the flywheel. Act states that the prolite flywheel should be for racing, the street lite wheel should be for stree/strip applications... the street lite weighs 11.5lbs.... My car is going to be daily driven, should I be concerned with the weight difference?? Should I just put it on??? Will there be any engine damage because of the weight difference??

Re:Flywheel Woes
 

No you should be just fine, most aftermarket flywheels are balanced. it wont hurt anything.

I drove with a 5.5lb flywheel for over year daily drving..

Jeff

Re:Flywheel Woes
 

My buddy was telling me that honda uses the flywheel to balance the engine, With the loss of putting on the flywheel, will that screw up engine at high rpms???

Re:Flywheel Woes
 

I emailed ACT about their flywheels, there are 2 types, prolite 8.5lbs and street lite at 11.5lbs, the guy at ACT responded and said that he feels that the street lite will be better for a daily driven car. He also says that the prolite will be difficult for a daily driver because you dont have the inertia of the extra couple of pounds to get the car going, he also says that there might be problems inbetween shifts and recomends I get the streetlite instead. I dont really want to spend money to ship the product back to CA..... How much difference can a couple of pounds actually make??

Re:Flywheel Woes
 

Don't worry about it. How often in your daily driving do you get above 5000 RPM? Unless you hot rod everywhere you go, you'll be fine.

Re:Flywheel Woes
 

But isnt that what the guy at ACT is saying?? That it will be harder to get the car moving from a red light because you are losing the rotational mass?? I am not going to be beating on the car. That is why I am worried about damaging something.

Chris

Re:Flywheel Woes
 

Install it and find out?

It should be fine.

Re:Flywheel Woes
 

I've decided to just do it, ---- it.... See what happens

Re:Flywheel Woes
 

heh somepeople are so funny seriously do you need help tryin to decide what toilet paper to buy.

Beau

Re:Flywheel Woes
 

I try to find the pink stuff :)