01-21-2009, 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by JoeyD
I've searched and searched but to no avail. Is the flywheel an engine part or a transmission part? Could you, in theory, benifit from a light weight flywheel on a auto transmission? Would you use the same flywheel for the auto as the manual?(hence my question about the flywheel being part of the engine).
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Automatic transmissions don't work the same way because they don't have pressure plates that need to clamp down on a flywheel. Flywheel is part of the transmission, not the engine.
http://www.transmissiondenver.com/facts.html
Last edited by RCZ; 01-21-2009 at 10:08 PM.
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