[Healeys] rear oil seal conversion

Pieter and Linda pieters at pt.lu
Tue Jan 4 10:59:24 MST 2011


I have a 3.54 rear, 28% overdrive and a DW lightened and balanced flywheel.
Take off and drivability is just fine and the engine is far more responsive.
Wish I had done it years ago,
cheers
Pieter
BJ7
On 04/01/2011, at 6:14 PM, Eric (Rick) Wilkins wrote:

> I'll play along.
>
> An Austin Healey isn't a drag racer, and the first gear with any of the rear
ends these cars came with is a very short stump puller (IMNSHO)
>
> I have a 3.54:1 rear end with a 28% overdrive and while I've yet to install
the lightened flywheel that is in my garage, I'm pretty confident that it's
not going to do much to the launch.
>
> Wilko
> San Diego
>
> On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Bob Spidell wrote:
>
>> Sounds like *speculation mode on* a lightened flywheel would be less
desirable with a 3.54 rearend *speculation mode off*
>>
>> bs
>>
>> --------------------------------
>> Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA
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