You guys are scaring me half to death with your tales of flywheel
explosions, and brought back some traumatic memories. Back in the days of my
mis-spent youth, I used to drag race motorcycles. At my home strip, they
would bracket-run the fastest car against the fastest bike at the end of the
day. I occasionally was riding the fastest bike.
One day I was bracket racing against a street rod. Typically, fast bikes
back then would come out of the hole and get 3/4 of the way down the strip
before the fast rods would get on the boil. Then, when the line was in
sight, the bike would be nearly tapped out when the rod would go by so fast
it would just about suck the rider off the seat.
On this fateful day, just before the rod was about to blow by me, the
flywheel let go. He had a 180 scatter shield installed, which likely saved
his life, but the lower half was unprotected, and the steel shrapnel hit the
pavement and flew off just behind me. I was lucky: one of the spectators
hanging along the fence was not. He took a piece right in the center of his
forehead, and was never the same again.
If you are playing with high revs and big horsepower, you never want to see
what happens when a cast wheel decides to let go.
Now I have to go and ponder my decisions related to my flywheel.
Thanks ( I think) for the reminder!
Dave
From: "Smit, Theo" <Theo.Smit@dynastream.com>
To: "MAURO D'ANGELO" <m_dangelo@verizon.net>; "Bob Hokanson"
<tgrrr@peoplepc.com>; "Tigers" <>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Best Clutch Kit 289
> Hi Mauro,
> Don't forget that 300 horsepower is double what the original 260 put out.
> In
> that situation, the best place for an original cast-iron flywheel is
> inside
> the box that your new steel flywheel came in.
>
> If you've spent money on your engine (and it sounds like you have, based
> on a
> previous post) then the extra $250 to $400 for a brand-new steel or
> aluminum
> flywheel is cheap insurance against a Very Bad thing.
>
> Cheers,
> Theo
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