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Hello everyone,
I recently have begun reading Herb Adams's Chassis Engineering book which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn quality information regarding chassis design and engineering. At any rate, he has an example in his book towards the end where he is talking about how a reduction in rotating inertia in the driveline accounts for quite considerable gains in acceleration and speed. I have been rebuilding an engine for a good while now and I had the rotating assembly balanced. This included the crank, rods, pistons, harmonic dampener, and flywheel.
The question that I have now is this: If I were to pick up a lighter weight flywheel now before installing the engine, would it throw of all the balancing or should it not be an issue?
Part of me thinks it would be okay considering people throw lightweight flywheels on engines all of the time and I don't imagine they have problems but the other part of me thinks that by switching to a lightweight flywheel when the rotating assembly was balanced with a heavier steel flywheel that it might throw things off.
I recently have begun reading Herb Adams's Chassis Engineering book which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn quality information regarding chassis design and engineering. At any rate, he has an example in his book towards the end where he is talking about how a reduction in rotating inertia in the driveline accounts for quite considerable gains in acceleration and speed. I have been rebuilding an engine for a good while now and I had the rotating assembly balanced. This included the crank, rods, pistons, harmonic dampener, and flywheel.
The question that I have now is this: If I were to pick up a lighter weight flywheel now before installing the engine, would it throw of all the balancing or should it not be an issue?
Part of me thinks it would be okay considering people throw lightweight flywheels on engines all of the time and I don't imagine they have problems but the other part of me thinks that by switching to a lightweight flywheel when the rotating assembly was balanced with a heavier steel flywheel that it might throw things off.