I have a friend who used to road race little street legal 4 cylinder MGs.
They would put a light flywheel on their cars to make them accelerate out of
corners faster. The problem that he had was that it made the car hard to
drive on the street. Shifting smoothly under street conditions became
difficult because the engine decelerated so fast between gears that it made
the car what he called "jerky".
Be careful to not give in to the desire to go too high performance with a
car you intend to drive on the street. Race components are cool but the
higher performance the car becomes the narrower its scope of drivability. A
balls out, street legal race car is a blast to drive occasionally but it's
also a pain in the ass to drive if you really intended to build a "driver".
Experience talking...........
Bill Vander Werf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Shouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Chevelle Mailing List" <Chevelle-list@chevelles.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Stupid question?
Interesting stuff - If I'm understanding this correctly, in my manual
transmission BBC application, if I had a lighter flywheel, the engine
would rev up faster, but it would bog down sooner as well. When you buy a
flywheel, as I will have to, what should I look for, if my application is
a street machine that goes fast?
Thanks,
Larry
