12-22-2010, 07:29 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Atlanta,
GA
Cobra Make, Engine: CAV GT40 with 331 KC
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Originally Posted by decooney
Tom,
if you don't mind me asking, what have you determined is the advantage of an ultra light weight aluminum flywheel vs. say a 32lb stainless on a warmed up FE?
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I hope you don't mind me butting in, Duane, but here is my opinion on the aluminum/steel flywheel issue:
I think for the street an aluminum flywheel is kind of excessive (pretty much just like the car itself!) and I highly doubt that most of us coud tell the difference in how quickly the car accelerates with an aluminum flywheel as compared to a steel one....a light flywheel (some of the steel ones are pretty light too) just makes the car a little harder to get off the line as it doesn't have that "flywheel effect". (hmmmm)
However, the reason why I used one and continue to use one is pretty lame....I just love how quickly the engine revs when you rev it when stopped and how quickly the engine stops when you shut it off. Real racy sounding.
A friend has a stock steel flywheel in his ERA and that things sounds like an old Lincoln when he revs it.  Sure drives nice though. 
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