<VV> Flywheel de-part-ure

[Sethracer at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/21/2007 7:32:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  
Vairtec at optonline.net writes:

>You  hear stoies about flywheel blow-ups Now I know why you need a 
>scatter  sheild in a front engined car.

Bruce Carlton blowed his up real good on  the superspeedway at Pocono 
last year.  Just tore the back of the car  apart!  We never did find 
all the pieces (there were many) and I  figured they burned up on re-entry.

--Bob
 
Another benefit of racing the rear-engined Corvair! In 1965, at the top of  
first gear, I pushed in the clutch on my 1955 Chevy - the one with the 302,  
Borg-Warner T-10, 5.13 rear end gears and no scattershield - and the clutch blew 
 up. The parts kind of scattered in all directions. Some pieces went a half  
a block, a couple came up into the passenger compartment. One piece  shattered 
three of the four major bones in my right foot, clipped my forehead  for a 
slight scratch, then punched a dent in the roof. The flywheel  did not let go, 
otherwise my right foot might have been destroyed. Only a few  months in a cast 
ensued. My trailered 94 Camaro C/P car has a Lakewood  scattershield 
installed over the Aluminum flywheel and Centerforce clutch. Once  bitten, twice shy! 
It might be worth wrapping a drag racing transmission blanket  around that 
Corvair bellhousing for those High rpm racers.-  Seth Emerson 



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