XTD lightweight flywheel

[Brighouse-gti]

Has anyone got any experiences from using the XTD lightweight flywheel? I've been doing some homework on the tinterweb and seems they have mixed reviews?!? Some praising and some knocking, but the reviews I'm finding are on all but the mk2's. The other thing is it looks like the XTD  flywheel goes on the opposite way round, as in you'd put the flywheel on first, which I cant see how that would work as it normally goes on last and bolts to the pressure plate?!?... Surely the teeth would be too far back for the starter motor to engage? Any thoughts??

 (It's just the flywheel I'm looking for info on, not the complete setup)

[VW BUSH]

Why not get an oem one lightened?
The XTD parts are cheaper than the OEM equivalents, I would be very wary.

[Sgt_Lemon]

A good engineering shop should be able to balance and lighten a flywheel with ease. As for the going on backwards bit it's because golf clutches and flywheels fit back to front compared to other cars I have seen and they probs use a generic flywheel picture.

[Brighouse-gti]

Yeah funny that, I got in touch with local machine shop today and the said that they need the crankshaft with the flywheel to balance it Thought they would be able to do it on its own Also, not giving me much confidence in there reply was them asking me where I would want the weight removing from! Thought that they would have know the best place to remove weight from a flywheel... Won't be shopping there then!

[VW BUSH]

You can do it on its own you just need to knock up a mandrel.
It is best to balance the crank and fly together, if you lighten and balance the fly only then you can put it out to the crank if they were balanced as a pair during manufacture.

[Brighouse-gti]

Bo**ocks to it, is staying standard, and to be fair the mk2 flywheel is relatively light anyways, besides, cars  been off road for 6 weeks now, need to get the engine back in and on the road again, where she belongs!