2.8 Lite weight flywheel
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Car: 89 Camaro
Engine: 2.8 V6
Transmission: T5
2.8 Lite weight flywheel
Does any one know if this will fit a 89 2.8 camaro, it will fit alot of cars which have the same engine (60 degree) any ideas?
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Car: 91 Camaro
Engine: 3.1...not hardly stock
Transmission: 700r4....not stock either
Axle/Gears: 3.73
i don't know why you couldn't use it but i've never had a stick shift behind one of these motors so there could be something important that i don't know about.
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Car: 86-FireBird
Engine: -MPFI
Transmission: T5
Axle/Gears: 3:42
I would say no.
only close app I see is this
Fidanza Aluminum flywheels Pontiac Fiero 85-88 2.8L 5-Speed Weight: 8 Code: C15
in 87 the 60* motor went to internal balanced.
So if that does fit 85-88? It has to be an external balanced engine.
Should say 85-87 unless the fiero didn't get the new motor till 89.
But the flywheel would need netural balanced if it is weighted.
Another $100+
You can do it yourself but I wouldn't. Seen a guy spend weeks balancing a flywheel for an 87+ app once. Chisled off the weights. Then hung the flywheel like a plumbob. Drilling holes here and there and then letting it hang for hrs at a time till it would show how even it hung............
only close app I see is this
Fidanza Aluminum flywheels Pontiac Fiero 85-88 2.8L 5-Speed Weight: 8 Code: C15
in 87 the 60* motor went to internal balanced.
So if that does fit 85-88? It has to be an external balanced engine.
Should say 85-87 unless the fiero didn't get the new motor till 89.
But the flywheel would need netural balanced if it is weighted.
Another $100+
You can do it yourself but I wouldn't. Seen a guy spend weeks balancing a flywheel for an 87+ app once. Chisled off the weights. Then hung the flywheel like a plumbob. Drilling holes here and there and then letting it hang for hrs at a time till it would show how even it hung............
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Car: 86-FireBird
Engine: -MPFI
Transmission: T5
Axle/Gears: 3:42
Of course. You can get them for anything, if you can afford it.
But there are benefits to a heavy flywheel. Id get a CF drive shaft first if you want to lose drive train weight. Better investment. Part should never break, or wear, and its usable on many many cars. Fly wheel is only worth $300 once, especially when aluminum and some hi friction performance disc are used.
Its almost like getting aluminum brake rotors. Its not the same but similar. Ya got a friction pads that can tear up steel like paper that are now snacking on aluminum. And yea 6061 is Strong but…….
But there are benefits to a heavy flywheel. Id get a CF drive shaft first if you want to lose drive train weight. Better investment. Part should never break, or wear, and its usable on many many cars. Fly wheel is only worth $300 once, especially when aluminum and some hi friction performance disc are used.
Its almost like getting aluminum brake rotors. Its not the same but similar. Ya got a friction pads that can tear up steel like paper that are now snacking on aluminum. And yea 6061 is Strong but…….
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Car: 91 Camaro
Engine: 3.1...not hardly stock
Transmission: 700r4....not stock either
Axle/Gears: 3.73
Originally posted by Gumby
Its almost like getting aluminum brake rotors. Its not the same but similar. Ya got a friction pads that can tear up steel like paper that are now snacking on aluminum. And yea 6061 is Strong but…….
Its almost like getting aluminum brake rotors. Its not the same but similar. Ya got a friction pads that can tear up steel like paper that are now snacking on aluminum. And yea 6061 is Strong but…….
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Car: 86-FireBird
Engine: -MPFI
Transmission: T5
Axle/Gears: 3:42
Its almost like getting aluminum brake rotors.
As an aluminum flywheel is custom part. Not a cast hi production piece. Might be made in china with cheap labor but its cut one at a time out of a solid chunk. Why its price. So it would be like getting aluminum brake rotors. If you pay, they will cut aluminum into anything.
Not one part in the world you can't get made out of 6061 but will it work is left to ifs n butts. Sure an aluminum rotor would work fine with rubber brake pads on a bicycle or down hill kart.
As an aluminum flywheel is custom part. Not a cast hi production piece. Might be made in china with cheap labor but its cut one at a time out of a solid chunk. Why its price. So it would be like getting aluminum brake rotors. If you pay, they will cut aluminum into anything.
Not one part in the world you can't get made out of 6061 but will it work is left to ifs n butts. Sure an aluminum rotor would work fine with rubber brake pads on a bicycle or down hill kart.
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