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Originally Posted by dcb
so you are saying you have no first hand experience with lighter flywheels in cars? Unlike steffen?
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Well I do have experience with one car with a light fidanza flywheel and it did certainly accelerate faster than with the old one. But I never did a before and after mpg test because this was an autocross car.
Maybe he is right that it will require more throttle to keep a given speed and this decrease the mpg, but again no real life apples to apples data.
There has to be somebody on this forum that has tried this. I'm already going to compare stock Vx gearing in my 97 civic dx with vx engine to the same setup with Crx hf gearing, but don't feel like pulling the tranny a third time to swap in the light flywheel to maybe have to pull the tranny a fourth time to put the stock flywheel back if it loses mpg. But if nobody else has any data, then that can be my contribution to this great website.