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hondo402000

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Since my last post got hijacked and got off track I thought I would post my pic of my new flywheel and start over,
 

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the Sachs clutch kit arrived, the clutch disc looks well made and the pressure plate for that matter too, just the Idea that it was suppose to be a german company but says made in the Slovak republic, hope it works but what really bothers me is all the greedy company upper crust types that are greedy and move their manufacturing to other lower cost countries so they can maintain their margins and their bonus . Or is it their governments taxing them to death and the environmental regulations they dream up and enforce like cap a trade that forces companies to move else where you be the judge on who is a fault.

anyway I did take pics of the PP and CD and figured out the 215 MM or 8.5 in refers to the CD clutch disc outside diameter not the pressure plate

HOndo.
 
Hondo,

I'm not familiar with any flywheels other than the original TR4A and Spitfire ones that I've worked with. So with the Fidanza one it appears that the area the clutch disk rides against is replaceable? I'm interested in why it's a darker material that doesn't have a machined look to it.

Scott
 
Hondo,

Remember, the Slovak republic brought us the YUGO 45.

Quality parts for quality cars
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Or is it their governments taxing them to death and the environmental regulations they dream up and enforce like cap a trade that forces companies to move else where you be the judge on who is a fault.[/QUOTE]

Both, but an awful lot of this one caused the other to happen.
 
HerronScott said:
So with the Fidanza one it appears that the area the clutch disk rides against is replaceable? I'm interested in why it's a darker material that doesn't have a machined look to it.
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The alloy is too soft to use as a friction surface, so the friction surface is a separate steel piece (which is replaceable separately). I didn't examine it closely, but mine didn't show any machining marks either. It may have been left "as cold rolled", but I wouldn't be too surprised if it was surface-ground instead.
 
Slovic republic, well hopefully my clutch is not for a yugo, I have taken a bunch of measurments,I might go to the ford place and see if they have and pressure plates in stock and compare, the ford probe 1990, SAAB place, just in case, they Toyo throwout bearing looks really beefy, any yes the flywheel has a replaceable steel plate, not finished machined but smooth enough

Hondo
 
hondo402000 said:
the Idea that it was suppose to be a german company but says made in the Slovak republic, hope it works but what really bothers me is all the greedy company upper crust types that are greedy and move their manufacturing to other lower cost countries so they can maintain their margins and their bonus . Or is it their governments taxing them to death and the environmental regulations they dream up and enforce like cap a trade that forces companies to move else where you be the judge on who is a fault.
HOndo.
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Of course no US company would ever do anything like that!!!</span></span> :wall:
 
hondo402000 said:
what really bothers me is all the greedy company upper crust types that are greedy
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Problem is, "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need." just doesn't work. Even the Chinese are learning that greed is one of the basic human emotions; altruism is not.
 
HerronScott said:
Hondo,

I'm not familiar with any flywheels other than the original TR4A and Spitfire ones that I've worked with. So with the Fidanza one it appears that the area the clutch disk rides against is replaceable? I'm interested in why it's a darker material that doesn't have a machined look to it.

Scott
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Scott, with any aluminum flywheel you have to have something tougher than the aluminum for the clutch to ride on, so that is what they the call the friction plate, it bolts in and is replaceable, should you ever need to. I've run maybe 3 brands of aluminum flywheels over the years, they are all the same way in this regard. As far as the machining finish on the friction disc, it's surface ground, thats alot smoother finish than any cutting tool could ever provide, same deal as when you get your stock flywheel resurfaced, it's ground not cut.
 
you can at least shame the chinese into doing things right, they will try to get away with using wrong materials but if they know you are checking metalurgy and hardness they will do it right, the Indians you cant shame them into doing it the right way.

I know

Hondo
 
I raced on Fidanza flywheels with extended rpms of 9000, trust they hold up to it, better than crankshafts, thats for sure :smile:

Some of you might find this interesting Lou Fidanza (owner of Fiadanza) is a ex SCCA CP national champion in a Jag E type, he used to bang fenders with Fitzy and Newman, very well known among Jag people, in the know. I dealt with this company since they opened their doors, good people, good product, I even designed two odd ball flywheels for them.
 
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