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Re: Webers on TR6

To: "Power British Performance Parts, Inc." <britcars@powerbritish.com>, Triumphs <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Webers on TR6
From: Trevor Jordan <tjordan@vic.bigpond.net.au>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 12:49:22 +1100 (EDT)
References: <3.0.32.19981229201033.00690ab0@isis.mit.edu>
At 1:57 PM -0000 31/12/98, Power British Performance Parts, Inc. wrote:

>Don't forget to have the flywheel lightened!  You can safely take 1/4 to
>1/3 of the
>total weight off the backside of the flywheel.  (22 lbs stock - 17 lbs.
>lightened)
>Reducing rotating inertia is the biggest boost in acceleration for your
>buck without
>causing the stress of other engine internal mods such as raising compression.

Brian

What is the downside of a lightened flywheel, rougher idling?

What is the best way to achieve it, shave a steel flywheel or get a
composite steel/aluminium alloy flywheel?

Trevor Jordan
74 TR6 CF29281U



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