taiden
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Yes, I have, and I have had very good luck. If you don't want to make the calls, if you can give me the info I'd be more than happy to see what I can do.
Please explain more.I do not reccomend using the 3sgte flywheels. there are too many things that go wrong with them.
Use the 3vz and be done with it.
I got a call this morning and apparently Fidanza doesn't make these flywheels anymore.the ring gear has to be flipped, and even then the lead ends up on the wrong side.
and as for powerhandling I'd be far more worried about using a 3sgte flywheel than a 3vz. for one on the 3sgte the holes get moved out almost 1/2 an inch, which by itself isn't a problem, but added to the fact that you have to use the flexplate spacer to behind the 3sgte flywheel to move it out enough to properly engage the ring gear, it ends up wiggling under the flywheel bolts. I'll try to get ahold of some pics of a flywheel that this happened to later. It's scary, and It's the #1 reason I refuse to sell them any more.
the 3vz flywheel barely gets modified in comparison, the ring gear is exactly the right one, and the holes get moved out less than 1/16" of an inch. Also if you're worried about power handling, it will hold anything a single disc clutch can throw at it. Modern castings are made from cast steel not cast iron. Big difference, and I'm pretty sure that's where people get hung up on thinking their weak.
I was saying the flywheel was close to the weight of a stock 3sgte.There are places that have billet steel 3vzfe flywheels plus the ring gear already faces the correct way I purchased one and had it lightened to about 20lbs and I don't see how you can say that any flywheel is close to stock weight on a 1uzfe since there had never been a factory flywheel, if your flywheel is close to the weight of a flexplate thats scary I am still using a 3vzfe flywheel and I think around 20lbs is perfect for the engine and in my corolla it has no issue what so ever breaking the tires loose in almost every gear.
I got a call this morning and apparently Fidanza doesn't make these flywheels anymore.
Why does the ring gear have to be flipped. As far as I can remember back when I changed the clutch and flywheel in my all trac, the ring gear didn't have a directionally dependent gear pattern. Just have to put a chamfer on the correct edge of the teeth.
How can you tell the spacer caused the flywheels to wiggle lose? Maybe they didn't get torqued correctly in the first place. I would like to see the pic too. What is that spacer made of anyways? It's been a while since I had it in my hands.
I have read most of the threads on here about the flywheels and have read you saying they are cast steel too. I would like the added safety of having a billet flywheel because a billet mild carbon steel flywheel will be stronger. Plus, I don't like the fact the you have to shave some of the thickness off of a 3vz FW's mating surface. Usually you get more strength from size. Also, didn't you have in the past, a warning about using the modified 3vz flywheel with forced induction? or did I read that somewhere else?
I was saying the flywheel was close to the weight of a stock 3sgte.