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« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2009, 02:25:01 PM »
Quote from: visionracingdevelopments;78454
Sign up to photobucket and upload them into there ;)


I machined down my M42 one looks like this:


@ fiftytakedowns & gtatbrissy, that is a single mass flywheel which has a completely different clutch and pressure plate than the dual mass, i have one on one of my cars
« Last Edit: October 11, 2009, 03:12:57 AM by 1991 E30 M42 »

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« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2009, 03:25:35 PM »
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i think some pics are in order...
flywheel

old and new clutch

flywheel and clutch
http://s947.photobucket.com/albums/ad320/gtatbrissy/?action=view¤t=Image023.jpg


Im thinking about buying that AASco motorsports flywheel, where did you get yours from?

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« Reply #17 on: October 10, 2009, 08:58:43 PM »
i got mine from bmp design, google it
they are pretty good i live in australia and they sent it from america in 5 days and that wasnt express lol

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« Reply #18 on: October 10, 2009, 09:11:24 PM »
I was looking into an AASCO flywheel. Anybody have any experiance with this brand?

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« Reply #19 on: October 11, 2009, 06:52:04 AM »
so far so good lol

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« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2009, 03:07:26 PM »
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Not to crap on anyone but that flywheel is dangerous and will come apart and remove one of your feet.

John


It was machined by a very experienced local machinist and was balanced by a company in the UK who build Audi DTM, Honda BTCC and VW F3 engines neither of which would have produced or worked on it if it was un-safe.
« Last Edit: October 28, 2009, 03:12:48 PM by visionracingdevelopments »
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« Reply #21 on: November 03, 2009, 01:01:54 PM »
As long as the stuff is only removed from outer edge of flywheel and it is balanced properly, lightened flywheel is actually safer than stock flywheel.

Because lightened flywheel has less mass in edges, the center (which is the area that fails) will have to endure less stresses because there is less centrifugal forces tearing it apart. Also, lightened flywheel stores less energy due lower mass and it does less damage in event the flywheel breaks.

Because my project will rev to around 8500 and stresses are quite high, I decided to get custom billet steel flywheel since the price is going to be reasonable.

Theses parts are going to form the clutch:





That Tilton pressure plate will be converted to operate single sintered three paddle disc :)

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« Reply #22 on: November 04, 2009, 05:25:38 AM »
jesus! that looks like a whole lot of coin... i want one lol

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« Reply #23 on: November 05, 2009, 12:45:29 PM »
wow.... that's pretty impressive. I think its about time for me to lose the dual mass haha

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« Reply #24 on: November 05, 2009, 09:04:02 PM »
Maybe we should do a group buy on the AAsco lightweight flywheels
its like 420 at Horsepower Freaks
          400 at some other sort of shady business. I think horsepower freaks WILL price match.

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« Reply #25 on: November 09, 2009, 11:10:07 PM »
bump?