QUOTE (zackspeed @ Jan 6 2005, 06:56 PM)
Paeco Industries These guys will make you a flywheel and should have them for the 1.5.
I will start off with the fact that its unsafe to cut down a stock flywheel becouse it weakens the metal which can couse it to shatter and if it does its going to send shrapnal thrue the floor into the car. On top of that it changes the distance that the presure plate is from the flywheel and can couse the clutch to wear pre maturly and engagement can be slopy.
As for the idle it could go up or down with a light flywheel becouse it takes so much rotating mass away. This is why you have to youse slightly more rpms to get it going. Inertia is a crazy thing!
no, inertia isn't crazy, it's resistance to change. a heavier flywheel has more inertia (more resistance to change). this has NOTHING to do with idle speed. however, more INERTIA will smooth out your idle, and a very light flywheel could cause sparratic idling. cool cams do that too though
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note, torque is a measure of the engines ability to spin all that crap, and removing inertia from the system will effectively give (read: free up) more power.
Edited by RexKrazy, 07 January 2005 - 12:56 AM.