You guys are scaring me half to death with your tales of flywheel explosions, and brought back some traumatic memories. Back in the days of my mis-spent youth, I used to drag race motorcycles. At my
I haven't seen a flywheel explode, but I've seen a couple of blown clutch pressure plates, a driveshaft pretzeled, and a brake disc failure. Seen pictures of damage done by a fan that shed blades. I
Hi. This is all very interesting, but how common a problem is this in reality, statistically? I mean, how many cars are out there (Tiger/TVR/Cobra/Mustang/Fairlane/Galaxie/Falcon, etc.) that are stil
To all, I suggest we distinguish between drivetrain failures that occasionally happen on the race course where the engine/drivetrain is running consistently between 4000-7000 rpms for long durations
" Some people are unnecessarily worried they're going to lose a leg picking up groceries". Gary: That pretty much sums it up....very eloquently too I might add. Dave _________________________________
That's a fair point. The probability (or eventuality) of failure goes up dramatically as you increase the RPM range that the engine is operated at, and it may be that if you never exceed, say, 4000 R
The only flywheel explosions I know of happened at a race track. The stock flywheel was designed for daily street use not race application. The scattershield is a bell housing replacement made of st