Lightweight flywheels on turbo cars

Modern Sports Car blitzmr2@insightbb.com
Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:25:21 -0500


> Not so for Turbo cars.  Turbos love hills or any type of
> load for that matter.

Which brings me to a question I often have: take a turbo car and do a roll
on in first gear -it runs out of revs because of the gearing before the
turbo can really start making some boost. This being the case, are
lightweight flywheels really a good idea for a turbo car -wouldn't it like
the load a stock flywheel provides, and to not keep form outrevving the
turbo?

Terry Heick
Modern Sports Car
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