I have 2 issues to talk about. I have a flywheel that customer wants on his engine, well yesterday when I was installing the pilot bearing, I realized it did not fit properly. The pilot bearing is suppose to fit pretty snug inside the flywheel, well in this case the pilot bearing is so loose, it just falls out when you turn the flywheel upside down. So I was wondering if anyone ever had an issue with this ? The flywheel is used and has been resurfaced, so I'm thinking either the guy who sold it to him forgot to tell him that something was wrong with the flywheel or the people at the machine shop messed it up when they were resurfacing it. Also I noticed the regular flywheel uses 9 bolts to hold the pressure plate on, and the fidanza flywheel only uses 6. Just want to make sure all the other flywheels were like this.

 

My pilot bearing fit snug. Ryan

 

Did you use all of the original bolts holding on the clutch disc ?

 

You mean the press plate? I just used the stock honda hardware. The reason that I didnt use the supplied hardware was because I didnt have a allan key socket. Both will work fine, the stock just sticks out the back a little.
Ryan

 

wrong flywheel maybe?

 

I bought an Fidanza flywheel for my B16, was going to use it but decided not to.

So naturally I sold it to a friend that had a GS-R motor. He was going to use it on his EK. Upon installation I started to tap the pilot bearing in, and it was slightly snug. Then I turn it upside down and it ******* fell out(the pilot bearing). I was like WTF.

Then I remember in the instruction that the pilot bearing might be a little loose or tight where it might require some modification. Since I was only helping, the mechanic decided to use it anyways.

After we mounted the flywheel and aligned the Clutch Disc with the PP. Next we mated an Ls tranny to the GS-R block. Everything seemed fine then came time to do the timing belt, I was trying to turn the crank but it would not move. There scratching my head trying to find out WTF happened, what is keeping it from moving??

Finally we decided to take the tranny back out to see if the tranny was bad or the motor. After it was detached, I went to turn the crank again and it was moving like it should. Then next we checked the tranny to see if anything broke, the input shaft was moving and everything was fine.

Then I saw this area right on the bottom/rear where the diff is. There is a small scratch there. It seems that the flywheel is hitting the tranny someone. to make sure it was it, we matted the tranny with the motor again but this time I would turn the crank and my friend would align the tranny, slowly tighten the bolts. When there was only about 1/8 of gap left the crank would get stuck and we confirmed that the flywheel was touching the tranny.

I really don't know why but all flywheels for the B16, B18 are the same except the weight but as for mounting to the crank it's the same(Right????).
I made a suggestion to not use it and I will exchange it for another one. But my friend said **** it, I'll just grid some of it away so it clears. I was like what ever you want.

After some sanding to the flywheel ring gear everything was hooked up again this time it was moving freely.

Now it's being about 5 months and that **** is still working.

After that experience with Fidanza I wrote a mental note that I will not buy that POS.

 

good post,thanks for the info...i have been looking into flywheels and the one that looks best to me right now is the act/prolite what do you doods think? also is that bearing supposed to be snug or what?

 

I hear good things about both. Yes, you want it tight enough that it dosent spin, you want the ball bearings to spin, not the whole bearing.

 

yeah the ProLite is good.. and it is chromoly.. unlike the Fidanza which is aluminum...

when i put the pilot bearing into my ProLite..it fit nice and tight.. you would need to give it a whack to get it back out...

whatever you get i would stay away from aluminum and stick to chromoly...

i would recommend Exedy or ACT

 

prolite is good. ive been usin the 8lb on my D for a while with no problems. revs up nice

 

Just found out its for a 00 si b16, so thats the problem.

 

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That is not considered a problem. All the new PP use only 6-bolts instead of 9. I am using a stock Gs-R flywheel and I am using the 6 bolts.

I do not believe this hurt performance or reliability by using only 6-bolts.