Tame my 4-speed Stroker....

yellow rose said

Glad you mentioned the flywheel. Even the soft lock clutch will have issues with heavy flywheel weight. It's a handicap no matter what you do. You can only tune around all that rotational inertia so much.

For those following this is why you don't need a heavy flywheel. Even in a mostly street car. You just don't need all that weight swinging around.

SL or CT or whatever else you do, if you have more than 15 pounds of FW weight you are hurting yourself.

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In drag racing, flywheel weight is only a handicap when you are launching below the redline and/or wasting stored energy in a burst of wheelspin after the shifts. The energy you put into a flywheel can basically be recovered, as long as you have an efficient process.

Power into a flywheel basically equals power out. When you don't have an efficient process for recovering that energy, a lighter flywheel helps by reducing losses. The energy loss is usually due to wheelspin, a lighter flywheel's advantage is that less energy gets spent on that wheelspin. When there is no wheelspin, a lighter flywheel loses that advantage in a drag race setting.

CT isn't a clutch, it's only a way to control a clutch. It can be used on sintered iron as well.