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 Dec 9, 2003 - 1:50 PM
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What exactly does this do?? Why would some one have a "Lightened Flywheel"??
 Any info could help, i hope im in the right forum.-Ivan- |
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Dec 10, 2003 - 1:21 PM
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think of your stock flywheel as a fat lady in a shopping cart... and a lightened one as an infant in a shopping cart.
now imagine pushing them up a hill and then back down the other side.. what is gonna happen? it gonna take alot more work to get the fat lady up that hill... and it gonna take longer to slow her down on the other side.. thats kinda how you transmission works... and it is very important that your transmission works as smoothly and quickly and with as little resistance to it as possible. your transmission is the single biggest robber of HP in your car - thats why there is a differnce between crank HP and wheel HP.. the difference (which is always a loss to the transmission) is the amont of power lossed in the transmission.... the less your transmission has to work the less power you loss when its transfered to the ground. so you really dont actually gain HP with things like lightened flywheels and underdrive pulleys...your more just "freeing" up HP that you are lossing. Hope that explains it a little better for you guys.. tried to keep it simple 
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