Max fam I need your help!..i'm in the process of getting the max back together and I'm debating on if I should get a lightened flywheel. Of course the benefits are great and fun, but reading through some of the threads, it seems some of us sold their flywheels because of the difficulty of catching(chattering and shaking) when engaging the clutch and they reverted back to stock weight. I have on order a ASP UDP that will be here in 5wks. It would be great to match that up with a lightened flywheel! If I go that route, would it be necessary to upgrade the clutch assm for more grabbing strength or a OEM clutch assm will be fine? Has anyone encountered this "high rpms" to engage the clutch because of the lightened weight or is this just driver preference? Just need some feedback before spending the mula. Thanks.

 

If you have hand, eye, foot co-ordination, you can avoid clutch chatter.

Simple as that.

 

This has nothing to do with clutch chatter.

 

you have to rev higher to avoid the clutch chatter trust me i know lol

 

I figured that...no such thing as quiet pull-off!. Just reading the threads looks as though lots of guys sold their flywheels because of this reason.

 

Its launching at a lower rpm (<1000) that requires coordination, launching at a higher rpm just requires a heavy foot and kills the clutch quite a bit faster.

 

Saying a lightened flywheel is more difficult to drive than a standard setup is like saying it's more difficult to walk and chew gum at the same time. Anybody who has ANY trouble driving a lightened flywheel car at all has poor stick-driving abilities..

 

 

The other day I saw a BMW 335i and the owner was doing slow takeoffs at around 3k rpms and I started to feel really bad for his clutch. Moral of story: there are way to many people who don't know how to drive their manual cars properly.

 

Thats false. VQs torque is different from the VE and VG along with the trans (similar but not the same). I have a Fidanza light weight flywheel and a done it several times and prefer it that way. Just remember the quicker it revs up the faster it falls. This means you have to shift sooner.

 

I have no problems with the Fidanza except it didn't seem to want to drive really slow, like around 5 mph or it kind of "chugged." Not a problem with the take off, but actually driving along like on a busy street really slow.

Some people that drove my car (including my wife) had trouble with the ACT pressure plate, which is much stiffer and more difficult to control. I also took my car to a tire place to have them rotated and they moved my car. I heard the guy kill it, then spin the tires just trying to move my car 100 feet.

 

Lol Thats why I go, "I'll move it to where ever yall want".

 

The penalty of low inertia......