is it worth it?
Also, is it hard to resurface your old stock one by yourself?

I would say it is impossible to resurface a flywheel yourself, unless you work at a machine shop with a flywheel grinding machine. Then it would be easy.

Fidanza flywheel, not worth it unless you replacing the clutch anyway AND have additional performance mods.

Or are changing the clutch/removing the tranny anyway AND PLANNING ON getting additional performance mods...

Exactly, great recommendation!

It does help the car rev quicker into the powerband....

And also will bog down on a hard launch until you learn how to fight it. The decrease rotating mass takes away from the inertia of the spinning engine, thus allowing it to slow down faster, as well as rev quicker. This is why it helps more if you have more mods...

I had a stock.....went to fidanza........went back to stock.

yes the way the car takes off is changed as well. a good mood to go along with this is a lighter crank pulley.

And boost

What did you not like about it? What mods did you have?

What kinda mods did you have and why did you go back to stock.
There must be a good reason...
please enlighten us. thanks.

fidanza flywheel.....verey well worth it

Still got it ? Want to get rid of it?

^^^^ I'm with the newbie on this one, best mod I've done EVER.

im currently installing a new clutch, still waiting on my part to come in, my whole car engine is stock? but my flywheel is a bit worn, what do you guys recommend. i would rather do something to it now now that i have it out instead of spending another two hours some other time just for the flywheel.

would this fidanza flywheel be a good option?

tell me morrre. i wasnt expecting people to sit here and say anything negative..but i value your opinion so lets hear what you like about it.

I <3 my Fidanza. Car drives better then stock.

Reducing rotational mass increases acceleration at lower speeds, meaning you'll notice a huge difference in 1st gear, some in 2nd, and not much if any in 3rd. 5-speeds have much less rotational mass over auto's as well, that's one of the reasons they feel so much faster. After doing my fidanza it made playing around in 1st gear SOOOO much more fun, it turned it into a neck snapping beast, allthough I did a y-pipe at the same time on my car I've driven a few max's that were 5-wpeed with just a y-pipe and the difference is night and day.

To the OP, even if you can't afford the fidanza right now, you must at least shell out the $40-50 to get your stock flywheel machined.

i hear ya, makes sense. i'll definitely get one when i got the money. just hearing people say they went back to stock made me like

I have a fidanza and love it. Im also boosted so i gues that isnt the same.

Just have a shop grind down your stock flywheel a little bit. Got mine done for only $35 and i do notice improvement in acceleration/revving. After a new clutch and lightened flywheel, I got my Quarter-mile traps from 98-low 99's to high 99-100 mph.

If money isn't an option then get the Fidanza FW, heck... get a Custom built turbo kit, a full 3.5 inch custom exhaust, standalone, etc... etc...

Do you by any chance have any before and after weights?

Maybe your clutch/pressure plate combo was a little lighter, generally the amount of material removed during remachining is peanuts, it needs to be put on a lathe and have alot of material removed, and from what I read on here there is no ok place to do this on a maxima flywheel.

OK....HOW ABOUT THIS ONE:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/XTD-P...QQcmdZViewItem
I know it aint a fidanza but what do you guys think anyways? Worth it? XTD...they make clutches also right? 13 pound flywheel, whats the weight of the Fidanza?

i had a similar question... i just bought a off the chart stage 3 cluctch off of ebay i did have my flywheel shave w/ almost 6-7 lbs taken off should i just get it resurfaced while i am at it or just upgrade to fidanza ... i do have full catback, y pipe, straight pipe, udp, and injen cai??? any help ll be appreciated
tnx..

Will you notice a difference in higher revving or bogging down with a resurfaced flywheel vs. stock that's not resurfaced?

Oh you have a stock flywheel, sorry to hear that.

But to answer your question, no. The amount of material removed during resurfacing is next to nothing.

That's pretty impressive actually, that means if the link above is correct & the stock flywheel weighs 18+ you are right around the weight of a fidanza. Maybe that guy was wrong about being able to lighten the stock 4G flywheel...........

hahahaha

thanks for the reply.

Anyone want to chip in as to how they feel about the ebay one I listed above?

Incidentally, if you buy a replacement stock flywheel, the design has changed, and it has less material. I haven't weighed the two to see what the diff is, but I'll do that tonight and let you know.

BTW, does anybody know whether you're supposed to reuse the chromed, larger, thicker 8-hole flywheel hub reinforcement piece that was on the engine, or substitute the stamped, smaller, thinner 8-hole plate that came with the new flywheel? The Nissan service manager says he hasn't got a clue.

Kartiste
"Carry On, & Dread Nought"

Are you sure that the stamped steel part you received is for the manual flywheel? The automatic flex plate uses a similar design, although much thinner. Perhaps they sent the wrong one.. As far as I know, the manual flywheel still uses the heavy steel centering plate, the one that is shaped like a bowl, sort of.

That was my first thought, because I saw the A/T flex plate on the exploded parts diagram and its "reinforcement" looks similar to this thing. But the flywheel it came with is definitely an M/T flywheel - has holes matching the clutch cover, etc. And I double checked with the parts guys at two dealers - the p/n for the flywheel is correct. It's hard to imagine the engineers thought that bowl-shaped thing was necessary then, but now it isn't. I really need a definitive answer.

PS I finally got in enough posts to be able to start a thread, so I started one on this, subject "Flywheel Installation Quandry". No replies so far. If you can help any, please reply over there.

Thnx
Kartiste

That was my first thought, because I saw the A/T flex plate on the exploded parts diagram and its "reinforcement" looks similar to this thing. But the flywheel it came with is definitely an M/T flywheel - has holes matching the clutch cover, etc. And I double checked with the parts guys at two dealers - the p/n for the flywheel is correct. It's hard to imagine the engineers thought that bowl-shaped thing was necessary then, but now it isn't. I really need a definitive answer.

PS I finally got in enough posts to be able to start a thread, so I started one on this, subject "Flywheel Installation Quandry". No replies so far. If you can help any, please reply over there.

Thnx
Kartiste

For the price, me personally, I'd stick with the fidanza, it's not much more, that's just my opinion, I have no logical basis for that though........

whats the difference between the fidanza and stillen flywheels. My main question is how much does the stillen flywheel weigh? i cant find it anywhere