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Can you add "Friction Material" to a Flywheel?

Old 01-31-2007, 01:09 PM
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Default Can you add "Friction Material" to a Flywheel?

I was doing some price checking and the guy I bought my current Spec flywheel from said that instead of buying a new flywheel, just to get some friction material to put back on there. I'v never heard of this.

Any thoughts?
Old 01-31-2007, 05:40 PM
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Yea, im curious about this too
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friction on flywheel
never heard of anything like that....like what pine tar
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no kidding... thats what I was thinking too. I'm a bit skeptical
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never ever heard of that being done.

did you reply to your own post? lol
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Why yes... yes i did
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Maybe he was refering to what fidanza flywheel owners can do. Replace the friction surface.
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I dont know... the guy knew I had a Spec billet FW. Hes the one who sold it to me. Either way, it sounded kinda fishy to me... i didnt like the way it sounded. if I was getting things fixed, I wanted them fixed right and just get another flywheel.
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I'm sure you're all aware that the friction material on the clutch disk operates like a brake pad and the pressure plate is then analogous to a rotor. Could you imagine putting friction material on a friggin rotor. IMO there is no way that is going to work, without jacking some serious **** up.
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Just spray some **** on there...it will be fine.

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wd40? just kidding, what are you talkin about!? lol "spray some **** on there"
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Its a joke. There is no such thing as adding friction material to a steel flywheel. You can replace the friction on most aluminum flywheels, but thats about it.

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