Lightened Flywheels

[skerocdriver@juno.com (Shawn C Meze)]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:59:39 -0600 "Brian Haygood" <scirious@hotmail.com>
writes:

>Wrongo, professor.  More mass means more constant engine speed, which 
>is
>only noticeable at low rpms, but means less bumpiness in the idle  
>(i.e. less of a back massage from your 'rocco).
>True that other problems need a good nippin' tho.


Heh, if you say so man. My 82 with a stock cam, ballanced 8.5 compresion
idles smoothly at 750rpms. Splain dat yo? 
My 84 with a 272 cam, ballanced 11.4-1 compression idles lumpy at 900
rpms. Your point was again? Well, -my point- was that if you have a lumpy
idle and its a stock cam, the reason for the lumpyness is from many other
possible reasons and not because of the lighter flywheel.




>This and idle are what I'm worried about.  


All you do is bump up the idle a tad. Its not a major ordeal. 


>I also just realized that that is
>why I stalled Ron's car like three times trying to get out of Duan's 
>yard at Cincy last year.  That and different clutch 
>adjustment,  and, uh, some other excuses, too.


Rookie!



>Uh, does that mean the 3rd is stock, or feels like stock?  If it ain't
>stock, what's it got, and why didn't it change?


That means that the amount of weight removed for the 84 roc was a 11lb
flywheel machined down and ballanced to a 8lb flywheel. Not alot of
weight so the difference wasnt huge. I do notice it on the freeway more
than I do anywhere else. The other 2 flywheels were a 6.5lb and a 7.5lb
flywheels. 


>> So the bottom line is, just do it. N-kay?
>
>Yes, sir, I think I will.  I guess I'm heading back to my previous plan
of
>light flywheel and moderate cams.  Hmmm.  Variable back pressure would 
>solve all of this.
>
>BH


Just do it. 


Shawn Méze
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