Increasing Torque

[peter mc]

Don't worry every race team in the world does, the lighter the rotating assembly the better your lap times are.

Super light weight cranks have been banned in touring car racing as there cost was running away with teams trying to make them strong and light, so don't worry about making the fly wheel lighter its all good!!!

[luvemfast]

My understanding, as explained by Neil Cartledge. Here is the dumbed down version.

Is that you can lighten the flywheel without affecting the drivability too much, IF you add a good harmonic balancer also.

It does 2 things.

Improves the harmonics, obviously.

But also adds some rotating mass to the crank to aid the weight reduction to the flywheel.

 

I'm officially the Forrest Gump of the forum when it comes to simplifying tech stuff.

"Life is like a crank without a good balancer and a girdle....... You never know when its gunna break"

[L28 rat]

don't mean to be a ass but some of the tec BS hear makes me giggle as any one can read a tex book and have a go .there are people that do and people that read about the people that do it... nuf said.

 

Ive seen some no name brand components used in engines, that absolutely whip the brand name big $$$ engines

 

Ive lost count how many people spent heaps on brand name products, that dont match

Then complain nothin works in unison