Lightened Flywheels

[roclist@accessconsulting.ca (Jason Adams)]

So to sum it up...

A lightened f/w will rev up and rev down faster, therefore leading to faster
accell/decell times...

A lightened f/w will have less engine braking effect (decell) on a non
revmatched downshift...

I agree just do it!

Jason Adams
Fahrvergnugen Forever!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn C Meze" <skerocdriver@juno.com>
To: <amalventano1@comcast.net>
Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Lightened Flywheels


>
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:22:16 -0500 Allyn <amalventano1@comcast.net>
> writes:
> >lighter flywheel is kinda more/less engine braking B-F-SNIPOLAH!-
>
>
> I cant believe how many crack pipe owners we have on this here list.
> Chripes man.
>
> OK, from the files of BTDT and my Masters degree from Mother Earth
> Univeristy, (MEU Go Soilmen!) heres the real deal with lightened
> flywheels.
>
> 1) They have NOTHING to do with how the car idles. NOTHING!
>
> if the car has a lumpy idle then its related to -other- reasons. nip-it!
>
> 2) A lightened flywheel will not make the car be hard to drive up hills.
> (I didn't hear it this around with the thread. dunno what NASA scientist
> said that but he needs to also be told that the crack pipe doesn't go up
> your butt. N-kay?)
>
> 3) A lightened flywheel will add to the engine braking effect. When you
> remove rotating weight, it allows the motor to spool UP AND DOWN the
> same. Don't believe me? Rev it and see how fast it returns to idle. This
> translates to when your driving, if your maintaining speed and then lift
> off the gas (the pedal on the right) the car will slow down much faster
> than the same car with a stock flywheel.
> All this BS guessing submitted as fact is pretty lame guys. nip-it!
>
> 4) depending on how much weight is removed from the flywheel, the only
> negative difference is when you launch (not a racing launch, just
> regular, "GREEN LIGHT", oh ok, go" launches.) you might need to rev a
> little more to get the car moving. That's all! Nip-it!
>
> In 2 of the 3 VW's I have lightened flywheels in, I need a couple hundred
> more RPM's to get moving without stalling. (all you engineers can splain
> why that is.) The 3rd car is just like before.
>
> So the bottom line is, just do it. N-kay?
>
>
> Shawn Méze
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