Lighter Flywheel for Manual Transmission?
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This is an expensive mod, so I am not seriously considering it. Will a lighter flywheel like this one improve MPG? : https://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FIDAN...mZ140063164938 Or this : https://www.spswebpage.com/store/inde...a26204d2c7dfc5 https://www.spswebpage.com/images/products/AFSAT115.jpg It claims better HP. I don't know what the average weight difference is between OEM and performance flywheels, but the SPS one claims from 18 lb OEM to 8 lb (i.e. one beer gut saved). This is the age-old question, which HP mods can lead to improved MPG, aka 2 for 1? CarloSW2 |
in theory yes it will improve mpg, but the amount is definitely uncertain. one thing is for certain: it will have NO effect on the mpg upperbound aka highway mileage, it will only improve the acceleration.
the benifits for racing are much more valuable. |
There was a long debate about this on teamswift a while back, each side arguing opposite (!) sides. Nobody was able to present their argument in terms simple enough to convince me one way or the other :)
https://www.teamswift.net/viewtopic.php?t=19413 Scroll down to martinq on Mon Nov 21, 2005. That's where it starts. |
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to comment on the cylinder deactivation, it will be to no avail, unless there is a reduction in reciprocating weight. EDIT: to anyone who reads this post and not the rest of the thread, this statement is wrong. back on topic, lightweight flywheels wont be worth the research. there are far too many unexplored areas of efficiency that should be explored before this becomes worth studying. |
It seems to me that if all you ever did was pulse & glide, a lighter flywheel would benefit, because the car could pulse up using less energy.
But the question that came up in the teamswift thread was whether more or less mass would help or hurt on the open highway at more or less constant speed (and with changes in grade, etc.) |
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if its going to be an up top corporate engineer's decision, then why not cut to the chase and bring all of the existing known efficient techniques together??? hybrid, direct injections biodeisel, with variable valve timing and cylinder deactivation??? in the end though, my posts are not worth getting upset about. i am just exploring the physics, not emotions. |
Does the amount of rotating mass influence bearing friction in an engine? That's the only thing I can think of that would influence engine efficiency wrt flywheels. A flywheel is only an energy storage device, so unless that additional weight makes the engine more than proportionally harder to turn, it don't matter.
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Honda attributed a 2.65 mpg (US) improvement in highway fuel economy from cylinder deactivation in its V6 Accord hybrid over the non-hybrid (but only accounting for that technology, not any of the other hybrid tech).
https://www.hondanews.com/CatID2131?m...46959&mime=asc The non-hybrid hwy figure was 30 mpg, so that's an 8.8% claim. |
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