driveshafts?
12-28-2004, 06:56 PM
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RE: driveshafts?
Ummm you don't lose top end when you lighten componts. The effects become less apparent/negalable at higher speeds.
You drop revs much quicker and it is harder to keep the car in its power band if you can't/aren't shifting enough.
You drop revs much quicker and it is harder to keep the car in its power band if you can't/aren't shifting enough.
12-28-2004, 07:49 PM
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RE: driveshafts?
Im pretty sure you loose top end. A lighter flywheel is easier to get started spinning, but once spinning is harder to make go faster so it takes more of your engine to turn it, where as a heavier flywheel is harder to get spinning, but once spinning its wieght makes it easier to push using less power therefore can go faster than lightwieght.
12-28-2004, 09:21 PM
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RE: driveshafts?
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Ummm you don't lose top end when you lighten componts. The effects become less apparent/negalable at higher speeds.
You drop revs much quicker and it is harder to keep the car in its power band if you can't/aren't shifting enough.
Ummm you don't lose top end when you lighten componts. The effects become less apparent/negalable at higher speeds.
You drop revs much quicker and it is harder to keep the car in its power band if you can't/aren't shifting enough.
12-28-2004, 09:29 PM
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RE: driveshafts?
Top end has nothing to do with rotational masses. It is based on gearing, drag, weight, and HP.
How is it harder to keep going faster if it is lighter it is easier to turn making it EASIER to go faster. The mass of the fly wheel is what helps hold revs because it takes more time to slow down.
A lightened fly wheel is difficult to street expecially with high performance clutch. I had a 6lb flywheel and a Dual fritciton in my Honda. If I shifted at anything under 3k the car would buck like crazy when the clutch grabbed if the revs weren't up.
How is it harder to keep going faster if it is lighter it is easier to turn making it EASIER to go faster. The mass of the fly wheel is what helps hold revs because it takes more time to slow down.
A lightened fly wheel is difficult to street expecially with high performance clutch. I had a 6lb flywheel and a Dual fritciton in my Honda. If I shifted at anything under 3k the car would buck like crazy when the clutch grabbed if the revs weren't up.
12-28-2004, 10:03 PM
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RE: driveshafts?
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Yes it is worth it, I have had no problems with mine whatosever. When they said that a heavier flywheel would be better to retain motion energy and would be easier to spin, I think if you wound both up and a high rpm and let them coast to a stop, the heavier one would have more intertia (the wantingness of an object to stay in motion) than the lighter one, but that is just talking about a freeturning motion. When you are cruising around your motor still spins the rest of your drivetrain and a lighter flywheel takes less motor stress to turn.
Yes it is worth it, I have had no problems with mine whatosever. When they said that a heavier flywheel would be better to retain motion energy and would be easier to spin, I think if you wound both up and a high rpm and let them coast to a stop, the heavier one would have more intertia (the wantingness of an object to stay in motion) than the lighter one, but that is just talking about a freeturning motion. When you are cruising around your motor still spins the rest of your drivetrain and a lighter flywheel takes less motor stress to turn.
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