Putting a aluminum or lightweight steel flywheel on a TR4 reduces the
flywheel weight from abut 32 to about 7 lbs. How wonderful.
However, the ten pound clutch still weighs ten pounds, and is a fairly
large diameter. Hey, how about lightening that thing? Of course, we
don't want chunks flying around doing damage to the car's or driver's
bodywork so we must be cautious.
I have searched the net every way I can think of for info on light
clutches and have not found any. I find lots of clutches for sale that
are for drag racing, have higher pressures, etc etc but none that are
advertised as lighter -- for any type car. I can't even find any
pictures of anything that looks lighter except those for top fuel
dragsters. I understand that on F1 cars, to reduce the rotating mass,
they put them on the axle shafts rather than the crankshaft. Maybe I'm
missing something.
Yes, I know the Tilton is out there, and is a beautiful piece of work,
but after seeing two of the Tilton clutch driven discs fail due to
cracks, that is not too attractive to me.
Anybody know anything about light clutches, or lightening stock units?
(yeah, I know I'll get 50 messages saying "don't do it" but I already
know that :) )
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