Recomended weight of lightend g60 flywheel

Anyone know whats the best weight is to have for a lightend flywheel on a g60 as i can get 15lb wheels cheap from amazon.com and posted free to apo lakenheath, and billet fuel rails.

i think the one i did for my engine is about 8lbs

mark-1vw wrote:

i think the one i did for my engine is about 8lbs

Crikey that's light !

I seem to remember that you should go below 11 kg or was that lbs ?

mark-1vw wrote:

i think the one i did for my engine is about 8lbs

light. i hear if its to light it can make it a bit to lively.

also if its too light its very prone to breaking. After seeing pictures of what happens when lightened flywheels go wrong im not so keen myself.

mark-1vw wrote:

i think the one i did for my engine is about 8lbs

i think i ment kilo's

In which case If I recall the conversation I had with Ian Birch correctly when I was building my 6a 16v donkies years ago he recomended that you shouldn't go less than 11 (kilo's/lbs) which seems reasonable to me.

I have seen the mess fractured flywheels make when they explode and they eat everything in their path, legs included !!

look it up on you tube im sure there's some impressive footage there.

Cool so 15lbs should be ok think the stock one is 20lbs or so.