Thread: Flywheel shields....

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I cant seem to find anytype of flywheel shields for a manual transmission....they are all for automatics......


Anyone have some advice or do they even make a flywheel shield....

Lakewood steel bellhousings, and Balistic bellhousing blankets.

Pat

what type engine and trans????

Lakewood, McLeod, Quick Time======

are you taking about the old flat tin that keeps stuff out of the old GM bell housing ? if so get some art paper poster broad and cut till it fits .use a ball peen to tap round will trim if nice and help find your bolt holes in the bell then tran s that to tin .HEY JERRY THE PIN BORING MACHINE IS UP AND WORKING NOW .I JUST DID SET .THANKS

Thanks guys ,it`s just a stock chevy 3 speed...I just dont want to loose my foot...no drag racing ,just spinning the tires in the mud and snow.

I got ahold of one of the blanket manufactures and he recomended a piece of 1/4 6061/7076 t-6 aluminum.....just make one myself is what he said and it would contain the flywheel exsplosion....

6061 t6 or just mild steel 1/4 plate i think its more up to the job and EZ to cut weld . as to 7075 t6 great stuff it will not weld and very hard to bend and $$$$$$$$$$$ it not even in the same field as 6061 t6. 7075 T 6 is better to machine .and is very strong. very $$$$$$

After roughly 60 years of organized drag racing, NHRA has determined that 1/4" steel is the stuff to use. For applications where there is no commercially available scattershield, provisions are made for a fabricated shield.....to wit.....

"....or must be equipped with a flywheel shield made of 1/4" minimum thickness steel plate, securely mounted to the frame or frame structure and completely surrounding the bellhousing 360 degrees. The flywheel shield shall not be bolted to either the bellhousing or the engine. The flywheel shield must extend forward to a point at least one inch ahead of the flywheel and one inch to the rear of the rotating components of the clutch and pressure plate"....

Here's how one fellow made his own bellhousing from scratch.....very interesting.....not NHRA legal, but offering some pretty good protection......and interesting.....
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=328096

The stuff you're seeing for automatics comes into play at 9.99 E.T. An SFI 29.1 certified flexplate and SFI 30.1 certified flexplate shield are required at that E.T. The flexplate shield would be pretty much worthless in a flywheel/clutch explosion.