Excellent point, Clive!
Lawrie
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:24:46 -0400 C Sherriff
<Clives_page@compuserve.com> writes:
> Message text written by Lawrie Alexander
> >
> Brown & Gammons build racing XPEG engines that are reputed to put
> out
> about 145 bhp. These use a flywheel that can best be described as
> resembling a bicycle chain-ring - there's a periphery that supports
> a
> ring gear, a flat surface for the clutch to attach to and bite on,
> and
> not much else! I'm not sure how much (or, should I say, how little)
> it
> weighs but it isn't very much. My experience of one of these in an
> engine
> is limited to driving the ex-Ken Miles R1 a few years ago, after it
> had
> been fitted with a number of B & G's trick bits. It certainly revved
> freely (close to 8,000 rpm) and crisply and exhibited no lack of
> tractability that could not be attributed to the racing cam.
>
> Lawrie
> British Sportscar Center<
> ================================================
> Lawrie -
>
> Indeed these flywheels help things go well!
>
> The important thing to stress here is that these are MADE as
> light flywheels using specific high quality aluminium and steel
> components and are not LIGHTENED STANDARD flywheels,
> If you lightened a standard XPAG flywheel to this extent it would
> almost certainly disintegrate at the revs the T racers use.
>
> Clive
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