Fellow Car Nuts:
As the automotive industry stinks right now, and we probably won't get a bail out, we decided to go into the dairy industry and make Swiss Cheese
In the never ending quest to remove weight from the car, Sandwich and Thomas got together yesterday and created a little more eye candy for all of us. This is our new Billet Aluminum 427 FE flywheel and pressure plate assembly. The twin-disk clutch unit is from McLeod. They didn't have an FE flywheel for the set up, so we figured we'd make one.
Removing mass from around the outside of the flywheel is more important the mass from the inside as the outside mass has a greater moment of inertia. Anyone who has driven an FE with a steel flywheel knows how nice it is to remove some of that weight. Your motor spins up MUCH faster, making it so much easier to shift gears quickly. Frankly, I can't stand to drive a car with a steel flywheel--they take way too long to rev up so you are always waiting to shift gears.
