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Offline Ess_Three

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Re: Flywheel Lightening
« Reply #30 on: 22 April 2013, 14:27 »
I would be more worried about people deciding to fire up their work lathe and remove material without knowing what they are doing.
It's just a shattered flywheel, blown bellhousing and potential serious accident away. Not good.
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Offline tshirt2k

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Re: Flywheel Lightening
« Reply #31 on: 22 April 2013, 14:48 »
I dont think thats the hard bit. Any decent engineer who uses a lathe should know about sharp edges, burrs etc that can cause stress fractures and weaknesses in a material
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Offline Foreveryoungaus16v

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Re: Flywheel Lightening
« Reply #32 on: 22 April 2013, 17:24 »
Quote from: Ess_Three on 22 April 2013, 14:27
I would be more worried about people deciding to fire up their work lathe and remove material without knowing what they are doing.
It's just a shattered flywheel, blown bellhousing and potential serious accident away. Not good.

Thats why I took your advice and had it done by Hotgolf. :cool:
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Re: Flywheel Lightening
« Reply #33 on: 22 April 2013, 18:49 »
Fortunately I'm one of the ones that knows what I'm doing  :grin:
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Re: Flywheel Lightening
« Reply #34 on: 24 April 2013, 12:55 »
Quote from: spikenipple on 22 April 2013, 18:49
Fortunately I'm one of the ones that knows what I'm doing  :grin:

Agreed!

and Thanks :afro:
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Offline Metallix

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Re: Flywheel Lightening
« Reply #35 on: 24 April 2013, 13:54 »
Having run the ABF flywheel around 5.5-5.6kg for a few years, I can't see a downside & the response is everything.

Interesting is when say a Mk2 is fitted with an ABF, but retains the 020 box, the flywheel can go down to something in the 3kg range, and still it is hard to see a downside!

Definately contributes towards waking the powertrain up
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Re: Flywheel Lightening
« Reply #36 on: 24 April 2013, 15:22 »
Most of the time people want performance improvements but want the rest to stay the same. There is going to be a slight momentum penalty, but all it takes is better throttle and clutch control.
The Missus mentioned to me that my car needed more revs to pull away than the other car, but i've never heard complaints about overtaking ability.  :grin:
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Offline Len

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Re: Flywheel Lightening
« Reply #37 on: 24 April 2013, 20:12 »
Think I'll be more than happy with my 6.1 kgs then!
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Offline vwwvgolf

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Re: Flywheel Lightening
« Reply #38 on: 30 April 2013, 09:58 »
looks like alot of you guys have done this now. how worth it is it doing?? im guessing its good as so many have it done.

is it time i buy a spare and get it sent off lol?
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Re: Flywheel Lightening
« Reply #39 on: 30 April 2013, 10:02 »
Quote from: vwwvgolf on 30 April 2013, 09:58
looks like alot of you guys have done this now. how worth it is it doing?? im guessing its good as so many have it done.

is it time i buy a spare and get it sent off lol?


Yes! :grin:
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