[TR] Lightening TR3 Flywheel

[Ted Schumacher]

We sell Fidanza flywheels and supplied them all the original units used for samples.  Back-in-the-day steel flywheels were lightened as a matter of course.  But not knowing if there fracture points and now being a litigious society, it isn't done as often. Ted

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Randall <TR3driver at ca.rr.com> wrote:

>
>>      ISTR that there are instructions somewhere on lightening 
>> a stock TR3 flywheel. Anyone on the list have it? I don't 
>> have Kastner's competition prep book. I did find a grainy 
>> instruction diagram in Vizard's competition prep book.
>
>Here's what I have.  The Kastner books I checked don't give details for lightening. 
>
>You might try talking to Joe Alexander.  ISTR he said he had a shop that knew how to remove 7 lb or so.  He did a run of lightweight
>steel flywheels made, but I think they're all gone and I've not heard that he plans to get more made.
>
>Of course, there's always the alloy Fidanza, available through Summit and others.  I've been very happy with mine, but there are
>some concerns so that may be more than you want for your Morgan.  The racers seem to have a hard time keeping them on the crank, but
>that hasn't been an issue for me on the street.  I still had to heat it up with a torch to get it off the old 3A motor, after
>roughly 50K miles.  (The instructions note that it is a light press fit onto the crankshaft and suggest using heat to remove it.)
>
>Randall
>
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