<VV> Flywheel de-part-ure

[airvair]

Maybe it's time we start requiring scatter shields on manual trans cars
in autocross, if we don't already?

-Mark

Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
>