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humble Regular I supported Toymods Location: Brisbane, QLD Registered: May 2002	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts Sun, 02 March 2003 06:29 I don't know if this was mentioned or not (okay, being the slack bastard I am, didn't really read the whole post too well...). Anyways, here goes... As the flywheel (by definition) is a device that is designed to store energy in the form of angular momentum, it's purpose is to act in a similar fashion to a capacitor in an electrical circuit. I think the effects of this on real and apparent torque was addressed in detail above. What I would like to point out here is that the flywheel is also used to make the engine appear to run "smooth". An engine doesn't generate constant power. It generates power in pulses during the power strokes of individual pistons. The flywheel mass helps to "smooth out" these pulses of power and the resultant harmonics such that the actual power delivery of the engine appears to be much smoother. In engines where you have very favourable harmonics/degrees of freedom (such as inline 6s or V12s), lightening the flywheel would have the minimum impact as far as this apparent smoothness goes in comparison to other engine configurations with less favourable harmonics/degrees of freedom. This might be another factor you might want to take into consideration. After all, you don't want a car that shakes like a tank. Cheers [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Blaze	Fri, 28 February 2003 02:41
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	gianttomato	Fri, 28 February 2003 02:46
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Blaze	Fri, 28 February 2003 03:14
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	gianttomato	Fri, 28 February 2003 03:27
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	manipulate	Fri, 28 February 2003 06:03
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Blaze	Fri, 28 February 2003 06:36
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	manipulate	Fri, 28 February 2003 10:48
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	RWDboy	Fri, 28 February 2003 06:37
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Blaze	Fri, 28 February 2003 06:43
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Norbie	Fri, 28 February 2003 08:44
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Blaze	Fri, 28 February 2003 10:46
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	kingmick	Fri, 28 February 2003 11:17
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Norbie	Fri, 28 February 2003 11:57
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	manipulate	Fri, 28 February 2003 23:11
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	kingmick	Fri, 28 February 2003 23:28
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Norbie	Sat, 01 March 2003 00:40
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	manipulate	Sat, 01 March 2003 02:29
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	gianttomato	Sat, 01 March 2003 03:06
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	gmsta27	Sat, 01 March 2003 03:03
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	manipulate	Sat, 01 March 2003 03:45
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	kingmick	Sat, 01 March 2003 08:08
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	gianttomato	Sat, 01 March 2003 22:40
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	kingmick	Sat, 01 March 2003 22:56
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	kingmick	Sat, 01 March 2003 23:09
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Sam	Sat, 01 March 2003 23:50
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Jason	Sun, 02 March 2003 00:06
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	kingmick	Sun, 02 March 2003 00:14
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Jayem	Sun, 02 March 2003 00:58
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	gianttomato	Sun, 02 March 2003 02:18
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Jason	Sun, 02 March 2003 02:22
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	gianttomato	Sun, 02 March 2003 02:30
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	kingmick	Sun, 02 March 2003 03:55
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	gianttomato	Sun, 02 March 2003 04:19
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	humble	Sun, 02 March 2003 06:29
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	kingmick	Sun, 02 March 2003 08:01
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	justcallmefrank	Sun, 02 March 2003 09:13
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	Norbie	Sun, 02 March 2003 13:18
	Re: Lightened fly wheels?? what your thoughts	gianttomato	Sun, 02 March 2003 23:07

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