"If you are going to get your standard cast iron road car flywheel lightened then be sure to take it to a proper vehicle engineer and not just your local machine shop. Take off too much material and it might be weakened so much that it explodes in use. Given that flywheels (at least in rear wheel drive cars) tend to be situated about level with your feet, it isn't worth the extra acceleration if you lose both feet when the ring gear comes out through the side of the transmission tunnel like a buzz saw at 7,000 rpm. There are plenty of ex racing drivers hobbling about on crutches who'll tell you that this can and does happen. On FWD cars the effects can even more unpleasant - a flywheel entering the cabin can give you a split personality starting from just below the waist that will put quite a crimp in your day"

This possible???? Having second thoughts about installing the TODA

 

actually i'd be more worried about who's riding shotgun, but yeah, fw's do explode rarely.

if your uber worried, put a scattershield around your transmission....better yet, around the firewall area.

remember, the motor is between you and a good part of the transmission.


[Modified by Soup ****, 1:07 PM 2/16/2003]

 

"scattershield around your transmission"

Whats this?

 

Quit your fussing and install that flywheel

 

This one's for a smallblock Chevy, but you get the idea. Bolts around the flywheel area to keep the chunks inside if it lets go.

 

On an ITR, the flywheel is lined up to the passenger. So put that bitch on and kill your guests

 

Unless your running 11's or faster, i wouldn't even give it a second thought. I have yet to hear about anyones flywheel exploding in a Honda even with the lightened pieces. BTW it is required for NHRA if you run 11's or faster.

 

There have been no reports of fw's exploading on this board in the two or so years I've been here.

 

Good enough for me... thanks..

Time to slap that beeeeaatch on !!!!!

 

that piece doesn't look expensive - anyone knows where to purchase one?

 

Looks like you may even be able to fabricate your own