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Originally Posted by BATANG CITY JAIL
having a lighten flywheel will sacrifice something.. ethier the torque or the top speed... i forgot what it was...
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That just doesn't sound right either way... by lightening the flywheel, you remove weight the engine has to turn. Since less energy is wasted in the rotational inertia of the flywheel, you free up more of the power to go to the wheels (same thing happens when you use lighter wheels or a lightened crank pulley since it just removes weight from the other end of the crankshaft). Top speed is not a function of the flywheel either... the car is gear limited as well as drag limited neither of which is a function of the flywheel.
The only thing I lost in going to a light set up in my Subaru was the ease of driving in traffic... the lightened flywheel will make stop and go traffic a little more tedious, but it is nothing one would really complain about.
I think a lighter flywheel would really wake the K20Z up... and am looking forward to the day I replace my clutch/flywheel... not that I plan on doing it soon.