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Old 06-22-2008, 12:00 PM
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Default LS2/7 flywheel - lighten or billet steel replacement?

I was just wonderring if I could get some advice.

I already have a stock LS7 clutch and flywheel kit, but I want to have a light fly wheel to go with my lighter rotating assembly.

I want to keep as much of what I have already bought, so from what I can see my choice is to either get the flywheel lightened, or to get a lightweight replacement flywheel.

Now I have been warned and read enough to see that the lightening the flywheel can be quite dangerous (take too much metal out and it will weaken it too much, then the flywheel shatters), but has anyone lightened one of these flywheels safely? Is there any guidance as to where on the wheel removing metal is a bad idea?

Failing that I think SPEC do a steel billet flywheel (SP66S-2?) which should be able to replace the stock LS2/7 piece but I haven't been able to find out much about it, does any one know any more?
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Ok nobody knows anything? That can't be true.

Does nobody have any advice about how much weight can bew taken out of the stock flywheel?

Does nobody know anything about the SPEC flywheel for the LS7 clutch?

Has nobody lightened a flywheel, or used the SPEC flywheel I am asking about??
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Don't know about the spec flywheel but I think someone used a lightweight fidanza (sp?) flywheel with the ls7. Maybe it'll come up in a search?
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Bump old thread, i have the same question. What light weight flywheels fit my ls7 clutch?
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Originally Posted by F-BodyMind
Bump old thread, i have the same question. What light weight flywheels fit my ls7 clutch?
Ram 2552 is an Aluminum flywheel for the LS7 clutch. If i remember right, and my scale was remotely correct, it put my LS7/Al Flywheel under the weight of my stock LS1 clutch.

Check out my for sale thread if interested, I have a kit for sale and may consider breaking it up.
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Fidanza makes an LS7 aluminum flywheel as well and just so happens I have one on ebay! The Fidanza was marketed as 12.5lbs but I never wheighed it.
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Thanks guys, Hey Raven can you send me a link to your ebay add? I want to know price $$$$.


Edit: Never mind Raven i found it!

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