Flywheel weight?

[xb-60]

Originally Posted by 1985 CCX

Ok, I'll try

I do not dump the clutch as I am not a drag racer. With alloy flywheel it hesitates a touch once you begin to move unless on the gas hard. Inertia is not there however once you start to move it rips like a rocket. RPM's fast!
Its like a two stroke dirt bike, pulls like a freight train.

Example the ACMKIV car, steel flywheel, almost can catch momentum if you let the clutch out slow with no gas.
The MKII will stall unless you give it some fuel.

Once moving the MKII is like a rocket where the MKIV is like a regular car and also smoother.

Granted the MKII is set up different, best I can do to describe it.

Jeff, my engine is probably quite similar to the 302 HO(?) in your MkIV, so I need that intertia that you mentioned.
My engine is (I think) a local Australian version of that engine, local in that the engines came in from US fully built up, and were then stripped and blueprinted/rebuilt by Tickford in Melbourne.
I'm allowed no mods to the engine spec. if I want to jump easily and cheaply through our local road registration 'hoops'.
Standard engine? "yes, sir." A CO check and a noise check, both at idle, and all good to go as far as the engine goes.
I mention this as it's relevant for my choice of flywheel.

Cheers!
Glen