[Half-Inch Stud]

Originally Posted by Tom Vaught

So who made that aluminum flywheel and did YOU buy it new?? Brand??? How Old???

I have never seen a Aluminum flywheel that bolted the friction surface to the aluminum wheel. UNTIL NOW. Tom V.

I got it in a parts pile from an expired Racer. Friction surface was riveted. Looked top-shelf except for the central counterbore for the crank bolts. Photo above is ominous.

[Tom Vaught]

BE VERY CAREFUL WITH ROTATING PARTS SPINNING AT HIGH RPM.

a) Buy quality parts if possible not Chinese made junk.

b) Buy a quality scattershield as it is the only thing between keeping your body parts and having some disappear when the "boom" happens.

c) Bolts (on Chinese made junk flywheels) are there because parts are easy to assemble using bolts. The idea that you could replace the insert (with a different insert) because the original insert had stress cracks says the part failed (cracks) due to poor installation, miss-adjustment, poor selection of parts, and human error on how to drive a stick shift car.

Tom V.

[Dragncar]

I did a clutch job on a BMW once. It had a flywheel with some sort of rubber dampener built in. Multiple piece flywheel, freaking Germans making things more complicated.