Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
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Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
Is it really worth paying 300-400 dollhairs to buy one of these bad boys? I would love to get better response out of my n/a ej22, but 4 hundo for the exedy is steep. What do you think?
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
Nope. If you can get a deal on one I'd pick it up. I like mine but you'll kill your engine more often that's for sure. I wouldn't pay $300-$400 on one. I wouldn't buy one for more than $175 lets say. Got mine for free but it retails for $425 or something so there's no damn way I would have bought it otherwise.
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
Its worth the ~$200 you can find them for on Ebay. Really wakes up the engine.
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
I wont be pushing the beast too hard, so Im really not worried about killing the engine. I might even be able to get a friend at the naval shipyard to sneak time in to make me one for a 12 pack if i give him the right dimensions. The wonders of networking.... Thanks for the input
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
Haha I didn't mean destroy your engine. I meant kill it by not giving it enough gas to make up for lost inertia with the lighter flywheel.
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
^AKA stall the engine.
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
The LW flywheels cause the car to be a little more difficult to drive, especially in traffic. I've got one, 14 lbs on my turbo, and it does improve engine response, but depending on how you drive it may not be desirable.
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
I have noticed the engine RPMs drop pretty fast on my 9 lb flywheel when shifting. I don't know how much faster than stock but it's something to think about.
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
Yeah, that's also true....I get the same thing....it makes shifting "smoothly" a little more difficult to get right.
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
I found that it made accurate heel-toe shifting much easier.
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
Yes double clutching is easier but upshifting while doing full pulls the RPMs drop quickly. Or regular upshifting.
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
I think i can live with that. Is there anything i can do from preventing stall due to the flywheel if i get it?
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
Its not really a problem. It just makes you look like you're just learning to drive stick sometimes when you get careless or you've been driving another car.
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
haha. after having the thing apart for 3+ years and driving other cars, i feel like i am learning how to drive a stick in the legacy. I forgot how sloppy the shifting is...
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
Get new bushings. Mine shifts like a race car. Well the synchros could be better and I don't really like where 4th gear is but the bushings and feel of the shifter itself is rock solid.
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"Your testes are close to your bottom but you still play with them all the time." Jeremy Clarkson
Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
would you happen to have bushing part #'s? I found an old thread about it on here, but i think people had trouble with those #s.
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Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
No I don't. I've already put them in another shifter thread and in my build journal. They're also in the parts catalog tyat you can download from joshs website.
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"Your testes are close to your bottom but you still play with them all the time." Jeremy Clarkson
Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
yeah, light flywheel lets it rev easier, but the trade off is revs die off while shifting.
im going turbo, gonna leave the flywheel the factory intended.
im going turbo, gonna leave the flywheel the factory intended.
Re: Lightweight flywheels? To spend or not to spend....
I had a lightweight on both my 93 TW and 00 GT LTD NA and loved it in both cases. Rev-matching was something I progressively learned and, well, it makes driving a bit funner too.
I rarely had difficulty with stalling, but more on the turbo than the NA.
I rarely had difficulty with stalling, but more on the turbo than the NA.
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