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> Pros and cons of lightened flywheel ?
sixaddict
post Mar 17 2024, 12:43 PM
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Have a 3 liter with 46s in 914…..Trying to decide if I want to install a lightened flywheel I have on the shelf. Basically a track car.
Looking for input from anyone who has made that change.
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post Mar 20 2024, 09:13 AM
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Dedicated track car I want the very least MOI in the clutch assembly.

Dual disc 5-6" tiny clutch on what looks like a TINY flywheel welded to a flex plate.

Weighs 1/4 what that stock stuff does...

Solid disc, no marcel, no springs in center, bitchy to launch, ceramic or sintered metal pucks, NOT street friendly at ALL!
This set up often rattles like a bitch at idle! Noisy, hard to launch, almost have to spin tires at launch. Bitchy to put on trailer...
The clutch pedal is more like an on/off switch and the initial bite is grabby as hell.

Street cars are the exact opposite in my book.
Heavy flywheel (not stupid heavy), disc with organic faces, marcel, sprung center (if stock has 4 I'd want more).

Smooth, grandma can operate it easily. The heavy set up makes things like AC affect the idle less and, in some cases, the extra weight acts as a damper and helps to isolate the transmission from individual firing pulses.
This can increase transmission input shaft bearing life.

A dual-purpose street-track car would be somewhere in the middle.
Light weight stock size, HD clutch with organic on one side and ceramic on the other
Either marcel or sprung center (big ass springs!).

Now, the above is generic advice...

I don't know what is available for 911 stuff. I would think "skys the limit" and someone has made the dual disc set up already.

If I was building a track focused car and I had either a heavy or a light available, I'd start with the light weight stuff first.
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sixaddict   Pros and cons of lightened flywheel ?   Mar 17 2024, 12:43 PM
Charles Freeborn   My previous 914 / 4 had a lightened flywheel. I di...   Mar 18 2024, 09:18 AM
stownsen914   For a track only car, there's not much downsid...   Mar 20 2024, 06:51 AM
technicalninja   Dedicated track car I want the very least MOI in t...   Mar 20 2024, 09:13 AM
brant   our old set up had a window'ed flywheel the...   Mar 20 2024, 10:04 AM
technicalninja   :agree: :agree: :agree: :agree: See, that stu...   Mar 20 2024, 11:25 AM
brant   :agree: :agree: :agree: :agree: See, that st...   Mar 21 2024, 09:26 AM
sixaddict   Thanks   Mar 20 2024, 08:20 PM
campbellcj   I have one in my car now (Sachs lightened flywheel...   Mar 22 2024, 07:20 AM
campbellcj   Here are the P/N's - FLW.901.102.026 or 901....   Mar 22 2024, 07:25 AM
sixaddict   Chris et Al…… Appreciate input. Posting pic...   Mar 23 2024, 12:27 PM
Charles Freeborn   Chris et Al…… Appreciate input. Posting pi...   Mar 27 2024, 12:46 PM
wndsrfr   Chris et Al…… Appreciate input. Posting p...   Apr 14 2024, 06:46 PM
sixaddict   Thanks John. Hope Kermit doing well. Terry [q...   Apr 16 2024, 02:05 PM
sixaddict   According to PO came from John Truman Motorsports   Mar 23 2024, 12:30 PM
technicalninja   I've seen a crap ton of multipiece flywheels.....   Mar 27 2024, 12:54 PM
sixaddict   Thanks   Mar 29 2024, 08:38 PM
stownsen914   Is it an aluminum flywheel? Fidanza makes ones tha...   Apr 9 2024, 07:29 AM
sixaddict   Thanks   Apr 14 2024, 12:54 PM


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