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norfolkluego

posted on 9/10/09 at 08:34 PM Reply With Quote
Lightweight Zetec flywheel

Anyone know where I can pick up such a thing at something resembling a Locost type price, tried all the usual supects. Some of the prices I've been quoted are eye watering and the only reasonably priced one I've found (£95) needed 165 quids worth of clutch chucking at it. Failing that a 1.8 flywheel would be useful.
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big_wasa

posted on 9/10/09 at 08:39 PM Reply With Quote
1.8 cvh is as light as you will get with a standard flywheel but it does mean running a trigger wheel on the front pulley.
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big_wasa

posted on 9/10/09 at 08:43 PM Reply With Quote
Its about 6.5kg the standard 2.0 zetec is near 10kg
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austin man

posted on 9/10/09 at 08:43 PM Reply With Quote
1.8 flywheel is lighter but doesn't take the 2litre clutch have it lightened and balanced
at a local machine / engineering shop





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big_wasa

posted on 9/10/09 at 08:54 PM Reply With Quote
Nope its a 220mm clutch plate, the 2.0 is a 240mm clutch.
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Dusty

posted on 9/10/09 at 10:06 PM Reply With Quote
But the 1.8 can be redrilled for a sierra pressure plate, sierra driven plate and still use the standard sierra CCT132 release bearing in your type 9 and you may have all those bits already and it comes with the trigger holes in the back and will cope with 200bhp, more if you buy it an organic plate.
It's what I got on the back of my ST170 engine.

[Edited on 9/10/09 by Dusty]

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norfolkluego

posted on 9/10/09 at 10:13 PM Reply With Quote
I've got (apart from a car with a great big empty hole at the front)
A 1.8 Zetec
A 2.0 flywheel
A new 1.8 clutch
The release bearing from the T9/Crossflow that's just been taken out (don't know the serial number but assume it will have to be changed)

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big_wasa

posted on 9/10/09 at 10:19 PM Reply With Quote
just stick the 1.8 zetec fly' in then. You will want a longer thrust bearing and job done.
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norfolkluego

posted on 9/10/09 at 11:47 PM Reply With Quote
Thanks guys, great advice as always (I'll be back next weekend for torque settings, just letting you know so you can be out !)
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rusty nuts

posted on 10/10/09 at 06:48 AM Reply With Quote
Don't know if it's any help but I have a 1.8 blacktop flywheel you can have if you collect it , not sure of the weight . Has some surface rust but a good clean would see it O.K.
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scutter

posted on 10/10/09 at 07:47 AM Reply With Quote
Whilst rare, a flywheel from an Efi orion has the 36-1 triggers in the back and should be light. Good luck hunting tho.

ATB Dan.





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ss1turbo

posted on 10/10/09 at 08:04 AM Reply With Quote
Aside from the fact that CVH EFi flywheels need the holes drilling out from 10mm to 11mm - but only an EFi flywheel will do due to offset holes to line the flywheel up to the crank.





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whitestu

posted on 10/10/09 at 08:12 AM Reply With Quote
quote:

1.8 cvh is as light as you will get with a standard flywheel but it does mean running a trigger wheel on the front pulley.



This is what I've done. I used a 1.8 CVH trigger wheel as well welded to the Zetec crank pulley. The clutch is all standard 1.8cvh bits.

It all fits together fine.


Stu

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norfolkluego

posted on 12/10/09 at 10:46 AM Reply With Quote
Rusty Nuts, thanks for the offer but can't get down to Cambridge over the next couple of weeks.
Does anyone know if the flywheels from the 1.8 are the same regardless of donor , Mondy/Focus/etc.

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