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RE: lightweight billet steel flywheel/Tilton race clutch

To: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
Subject: RE: lightweight billet steel flywheel/Tilton race clutch
From: fpspitfire@insightbb.com
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 04:46:54 +0000
Cc: "'BOB KRAMER'" <rkramer3@austin.rr.com>, fot@autox.team.net
Delivered-to: mharc@demo.fatchancegarage.com
Reply-to: fpspitfire@insightbb.com
Sender: owner-fot@autox.team.net
Bob,
Check with quartermaster for a flywheel and clutch setup.  They are making a 
billet steel flywheel for me with their clutch setup on it.
--
All the best
Aaron Johnson
#38 FP Spitfire Mk4 Southern Illinois Region SCCA
http://home.insightbb.com/~fpspitfire


> I don't think so, but you can get a Quartermaster clutch that fits on the
> typical lightened steel flywheels (mine is a Cambridge) with minimal machine
> work. I'm using the two plate rally clutch. Hooks up right now. Talley Ho.
> 
> By the way, I tried Gran Turismo 4 this morning on the playstation we have
> around for when the grandkids or nephews visit. I was very
> disappointed--with the standard PS2 steering wheel the cars were almost
> uncontrollable. I mentioned it to a friend and he said the standard wheels
> suck, you need a better one. Went to the local game store, and they hooked
> me up with a Logitech wheel that is actually MADE for this game. 
> 
> The result is incredible. I spent way too much time this afternoon racing a
> lotus Elise around Laguna. It's real. My shoulders ache. I screw up at the
> same places I do on the real track. When you make that turn under the Dunlop
> bridge you can carry way too much speed and still catch it because it turns
> up hill. Simply amazing how precisely real it is. You can feel the FIA curbs
> in the wheel--exactly as they feel. Not close to real--exactly real.  
> 
> I thought the old Grand Prix Legends was pretty cool, but this is light
> years better. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
> Of BOB KRAMER
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 3:05 PM
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: lightweight billet steel flywheel/Tilton race clutch 
> 
> Do any USA suppliers sell the fancy, lightweight billet steel
> flywheel/Tilton race clutch setups ?
> 
> Bob Kramer
> rkramer3@austin.rr.com 

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