Page 1 of 1
Take care of your flywheel or...
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:24 pm
by The Dark Side of Will
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:24 pm
by Indy
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:42 pm
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?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:45 pm
by The Dark Side of Will
Makes me want to attach a Kevlar trans blanket to my firewall behind the driver's seat.
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:05 pm
by Mach10
Good thing I read those posts and found out that clutch-dust is a powerful enough explosive to shatter a flywheel... :salute:
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:26 pm
by p8ntman442
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:16 pm
by crzyone
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:55 pm
by Indy
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.
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:05 am
by Kohburn
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
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:45 am
by Mach10
That'll buff right out.
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:33 am
by crzyone
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.
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:06 am
by The Dark Side of Will
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.
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:56 am
by AkursedX
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.
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 1:53 pm
by Blue Shift
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.
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:38 pm
by Aaron
Maybe you should start fishing or something, God tells me building cars isn't your destiny :thumbleft: