Lightened Flywheel for 3.2 Carrera...

[SprintStar]

Hello All,

A friend of mine has a '88 3.2 Carrera. His engine is out for a clutch change ( stock rubber-damped shattered to pieces.. Haha..)

Been looking some, but no one seems to be selling a lighted flywheel for these cars. What gives?

Patrick Motorsports has a lightened pressure plate which they claim to be much better than a lightened flywheel set-up as they say the 3.2 flywheel can't be lightened much..

What do you guys use?

Thanks for any heads-up!

Sprint.

[Randy Webb]

True -- unless you convert to carbs. Also check out Kennedy & Wevo & SRP.

[TimT]

Lookhere they may have something.

It is true you cant take that much weight from a stock disc flywheel though.


you can take some though

[RickM]

Will a lightened flywheel be more prone to chatter? From what I understand this typically comes with the territory and is not a very desirable trait.

[Lucky]

The stock flywheel is pretty light... where you really save on the rotational inertia is with a lightened pressure plate. I have the aluminum RS pressure plate in my car, revs much quicker now.

Your friend should spend his dollars on the pressure plate, leave the flywheel alone.

[Randy Webb]

flywheel wts:

Flywheel, stock 3.2L 9.9
flywheel, Patrick Motorsports 6.9
flywheel, Wevo "skeleton" incl ring gear 5.0

[nestorjw]

Call S Car Go Racing, I believe they may have one. 415-485-6026

[Elombard]

my Aluminum PP is way lighter than the steel unit (as mentioned above). In Waynes new book CE has a line item on the machine work work for lightening the stock fly wheel. Its pretty reasonable. Any body done this? how much weight does it shave?

[Formerly Steve Wilkinson]

I have a Truman aluminum flywheel and an aluminum pressure plate in a 3.4-liter carbureted SC. Works absolutely normally. My wife's '03 Boxster is harder to move off a standing start without stalling it.

Stephan