[DAVID GAGNARD]

rsimoes;

Back 5 years ago when I was with a dirt track team,they outlawed aluminum flywheels,so one of our "helper/sponsors" ran a machine shop and the sponsorship was mostly in much needed machine work rather than cash. Well, the machinest told us to bring him some old steel flywheels and let him experiment with them... He got one down to within 4 pounds of an aluminum flywheel and I was very skeptical about the safety of running this flywheel,but the driver wanted to give it a try,hell,I was not driving it so I said go ahead.... We ran that flywheel two seasons,every saturday nite for 6 months for two years turning from 6,000 to 6,500 max rpms without any problems.... At the end of the season we would pull the motor and have it lightly resurfaced and put it back in, the driver said it made a lot of diference from a standard weight steel flywheel....

Just what I know,take it for what it's worth....

David