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The photo below shows the milling of the six radial slots for the 7.25" sintered racing clutch style flywheel. The flywheel weighed in at 4.1Kg including ring gear and was machined from EN25 - a high tensile alloy steel. I machined in the slots in order to reduce its weight as the slots saved 0.8Kg. Also the removal of mass on the outer diameter to reduce the flywheels Rotational Moment of Inertia.
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