SS3 Lightened Flywheel

[Excalibur]

To anyone thinking of adding one to this model - Dont

I got one off Extreme and couldnt find a clutch to fit. Had to take the gearbox out twice and they wouldnt take the flywheel back

Couldnt find a clutch to match (ordered three) because apparently the SS3 has a different spline on the gearbox

Or it could be I have an older ST202 Gearbox

I fixed the problem by lightening my original flywheel which turned out to be an easy and cheap process

It had a series of 18 holes drilled from the outer circle. Each hole removing 50 grams of weight

Then it was sent to a marine turbo outfit to get very accurately balanced

I didnt take quite enough off

Mine was 6.4kg and I removed 1kg to make it 5.4

It needed another series of 6 holes to make it 1.3kg removed or 5.1 kg total weight

This is good for daily driving

[trentmeyer23]

You probably should have done a bit more research before buying a new flywheel. You don't always get direct bolt on fits with everything you buy. Maybe you should have bought a Fidanza instead.

[Excalibur]

The Xtreme Chromoly flywheel did fit. But the clutch recommended by Xtreme ( Oz) in the invoice they sent me didnt

On another look I saw on the Clutchpro website (They make Xtreme), That they dont mention a lightened flywheel / clutch combo for the1998 ST202 BLMZF Beams SS3 Celica

I was avoiding machining it, but it turned out to be easy and it was balanced to 0.3 of a gram at 8000rpm

Edited August 19, 2012 by Excalibur