Hi,
Here's $.02 - If you start with a 32 pound TR6 flywheel and get rid of 10
pounds or so, your car will "spool up faster" and the driveability is not
effected.
For a 6 cylinder Triumph, I am convinced that decreasing the mass at the
flywheel end of the crankshaft is a good thing for a lot of reasons.
The trick to not stalling (if you have a really light flywheel) is to raise
the revs. to about 4000 before dumping the clutch. It really nails you to
the seat, but I hardly ever stall!
Seriously, as long as you don't lighten things to much lower than 20 pounds
you'll like the lightened flywheel. Don't forget to get it balanced, and
for heavens sake - if you don't know what you're doing (regarding
lightening flywheels), please have a professional do the "cutting". It is
possible to make the flywheel unsafe in the process of shedding the weight.
Zoom, screech.
rml
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