I would have to live in a damn cool climate to give up AC for a minicule gain in the 1/4m. However, if I were building a race car of course I would remove it. The gain would be small, but so are most gains - luckily, weight reduction gains are additive. But as stated, they will be small for this mod in and of itself. To each his own!

Rich

ps: I just saw bracket racing. If it's not heads up racing I can't see it.

 

once its spinning...it won't take much to spin it faster......


It won't do anything, drop a few pounds but thats it

 

Sooner or later I am going to put it back in the car.....

 

Actually you gain quite a bit of power from a reduced weight flywheel... only thing is that it's power you already had, but never experience due to drivetrain loss.

 

I would tend to agree, I noticed a SOTP difference after installing a light weight SLP flywheel.

 

Again, to each his own. However, now-days bracket racing is about the only game around if you’re involved with NHRA, or IHRA drag racing. The Sportsman and Sock Eliminator classes are also just another form of bracket racing, or have a class index with a break-out (about the same as regular bracket, but the class index establishes the class dial). i.e., Super-Street 10.90 class index.

I participate the in the NHRA Summit Series and points race which is very competitive and a lot of fun (even more fun if you’re winning). The Summit Series also hosts several special evens (National Dragster Challenge, King of the Track, Etc.) as-well-as the Division Finals (7 Divisions total) and National Finals at Pomona.

Check-out this link.

http://www.nhra.com/aboutnhr/etseries.htm

WD

 

All forms of racing have the same connundrum: how to make racing affordable, yet fun and competitive. Heads up racing often comes down to "he who spends the most money wins". Now, spending doesn't guarantee success, as Toyota knows and any follower of F1 can confirm. But you have to have a competitive budget to be competitive. Hence bracket racing in the drags and "spec" classes in amatuer road racing, etc. Some pro series have become almost "spec", classes such as the IRL. Even in F1, the biggest budget racing series of all (Toyota est. budget is $150,000,000 annual) there is one tire supplier (in effect, a "spec" tire) and they are going to a spec ECU.

There is something inherently unsatisfying about not making every pass as fast as you possibly can. But the alternative would lead to very uncompetitive racing except for the couple of biggest spenders. So, the term necessary evil is appropriate.

Rich