[Bill Verburg]

Originally Posted by TimT

Yes, this exercise applies to lightweight flywheels.. but is applicable to wheels

Rotating Mass calculation

Only in general, the moment of inertia of a flywheel is fairly easy to calculate because the shape of the flywheel is pretty simple and the mass is fairly uniformly distributed, wheels and tires have much more complicated shapes and far less uniformly distributed mass.

The flywheels significance is greatly multiplied by the gearing in the car, the wheels are not affected except by the gearing imparted by various tires different loaded rolling radii