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So....about that scatter shield we were talking about a couple years back...

On the plus side, you can now use the ring gear like a pull-through string on a top.
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Post by Kohburn »

the ring gear is what went through the hood and flew 150 feet? DAMN
it takes a lot to straighten out a ring gear and feed it through the bellhousing and the hood.

scatter shield... would 1/8" steel be enough?
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Makes me want to attach a Kevlar trans blanket to my firewall behind the driver's seat.
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Good thing I read those posts and found out that clutch-dust is a powerful enough explosive to shatter a flywheel... :salute:
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Never heard of a fiero throwing a flywheel through the firewall, and there have been big hp fieros since day one.

I think GM (mis)designed the DIff carrier to save our spines.
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p8ntman442 wrote:Never heard of a fiero throwing a flywheel through the firewall, and there have been big hp fieros since day one.
If its going to happen, it will be a redrilled flywheel for a Northstar or any other motor that has a modified flywheel.
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This is why spending extra money on a small diameter (read as "low energy") flywheel and clutch really doesn't make me feel so bad.
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Indy wrote:This is why spending extra money on a small diameter (read as "low energy") flywheel and clutch really doesn't make me feel so bad.
i'll worry about that after i trash the 4speed and go to swap in a g6 6speed
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That'll buff right out.
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crzyone wrote:
p8ntman442 wrote:Never heard of a fiero throwing a flywheel through the firewall, and there have been big hp fieros since day one.
If its going to happen, it will be a redrilled flywheel for a Northstar or any other motor that has a modified flywheel.

Funny reading this again. When I was on the dyno with my fiero I stuffed my laptop case behind the drivers seat just incase the flywheel came apart. I am extremely nervous about having a redrilled flywheel after seeing what it did to this skyline.

I hope my sub boxes and a couple fire walls would stop the shrapnel from cleaving my back....

My flywheel may never break but it is one of the first things I would upgrade on my car. A SPEC aluminum flywheel is high on the priority list.
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I put a lot of miles and a lot of rev limiter hits on my redrilled stock flywheel. Within the factory RPM range, it'll be fine.
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If I had to bet, I'd put money on one of Arch-bags new aluminum flywheels to let go. Based soley on his track record of crap.
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I have a slight reason to suspect something has departed from my clutch assembly at high rpm... Heard a bang like a bolt flying out and hitting something, then heard it again later on. No noises since, and I crawled under the car to inspect the flywheel, and all the friction surface bolts, ring rear retaining bolts, and pressure plate bolts are accounted for and in place still. Problem is, the clutch slips if I try to launch hard, where it used to bite abruptly and firmly if called on.
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Maybe you should start fishing or something, God tells me building cars isn't your destiny :thumbleft:
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