Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:27 pm
Hey guys,
Need some input here. Here's the background. My sister-in-law's dad is a career machinist, tool and die maker to be specific. He has over 40 years of experience, and retired a few years ago. At about that time, he bought out a machine shop and now likes to make stuff for his Porsches in his spare time. He is extremely good at what he does, apparantly. He has a full machine shop in his back shop at his house, including various CNC equipment.
He is interested in making us flywheels, but I don't know enough about them to tell him what we need. He needs pictures and information:
- construction of the stock flywheels
- mode of failure
- details about specs - shaft size, weight, etc
- he's also willing to do different weights, what weights would be good, heavier, lighter, both?
If someone could send me a good flywheel on loan so he could take a look at it, that would also be a good thing. I only have the ones that are currently installed. He said he would also like a sample of the shaft it mounts on. If I'm not mistaken, that would be the crank, right?
I think this is a real chance to solve this problem - like I said, he is real good at what he does, he makes parts for his engines on a regular basis, and does this because he enjoys it, not as a career anymore.
SO let me know what info you have...
Marc
Need some input here. Here's the background. My sister-in-law's dad is a career machinist, tool and die maker to be specific. He has over 40 years of experience, and retired a few years ago. At about that time, he bought out a machine shop and now likes to make stuff for his Porsches in his spare time. He is extremely good at what he does, apparantly. He has a full machine shop in his back shop at his house, including various CNC equipment.
He is interested in making us flywheels, but I don't know enough about them to tell him what we need. He needs pictures and information:
- construction of the stock flywheels
- mode of failure
- details about specs - shaft size, weight, etc
- he's also willing to do different weights, what weights would be good, heavier, lighter, both?
If someone could send me a good flywheel on loan so he could take a look at it, that would also be a good thing. I only have the ones that are currently installed. He said he would also like a sample of the shaft it mounts on. If I'm not mistaken, that would be the crank, right?
I think this is a real chance to solve this problem - like I said, he is real good at what he does, he makes parts for his engines on a regular basis, and does this because he enjoys it, not as a career anymore.
SO let me know what info you have...
Marc