Fidanza Flywheel flexes with a ACT 2600???

[myblack98gst]

a buddy of mine and I installed a Fidanza and 2600 in his 2g FWD with a 6 bolt swap. the starter would not engage properly at all after replacing the starter several times and finicking with this thing for hours and hours I was laying under it one day and noticed when he pushes in the clutch the ring gear would move towards the block.

After much closer inspection it is flexing the crank does not move 1mm with the clutch the center hub of the flywheel stays still but the flywheel flexes?????

the temporary fix to get it to start better was disconnect the clutch switch. but it still does not engage right it acts like it is hitting the ring gear too low and stopping the starter drive.

Has anyone come across this issue. the flexing flywheel OR the starter engagement.

 

[Defiant]

You have the wrong starter or flywheel. AWD and FWD are different.

 

[theSicKness]

hehe been there wrong flywheel!

 

[99gst_racer]

Yeah, sounds like he's got an AWD flywheel on there. There is a 1/4" difference in the radius between the two.

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1836671&postcount=14

 

[RayPeters]

a buddy of mine and I installed a Fidanza and 2600 in his 2g FWD with a 6 bolt swap. the starter would not engage properly at all after replacing the starter several times and finicking with this thing for hours and hours I was laying under it one day and noticed when he pushes in the clutch the ring gear would move towards the block.

After much closer inspection it is flexing the crank does not move 1mm with the clutch the center hub of the flywheel stays still but the flywheel flexes?????

the temporary fix to get it to start better was disconnect the clutch switch. but it still does not engage right it acts like it is hitting the ring gear too low and stopping the starter drive.

Has anyone come across this issue. the flexing flywheel OR the starter engagement.

There is a depth difference between a AWD starter and a FWD starter as well, the AWD unit reaches approx 3/8 to 1/2 inch deeper. I just had this problem on a awd car. Engine swap, same tranny, thought WTH put a new starter on it, and I got the wrong unit from the rebuilder. They are identical except for that single difference. Hope you get it figured out.

Ray

 

[treebonker]

FWD and AWD starter motors are same while m/t and a/t starters differ. The m/t motor has a longer cover that protrudes deeper into the transmission.

 

[RayPeters]

FWD and AWD starter motors are same while m/t and a/t starters differ. The m/t motor has a longer cover that protrudes deeper into the transmission.

Thanks for the correction, I screwed up. I forgot exactly what the starter I had came off of. It was off a fwd AT. Been too long since I worked on anything but AWD MT. Thanks again.

Ray

 

[myblack98gst]

the flywheel is correct because it will start perfect sometimes. if it were the wrong one it would never start.


the MAIN issue no one has seemed to read was that the flywheel flexes pretty bad when you push in the clutch.

 

[pickens]

mine doesn't flex w/ a 2600. Maybe bad flywheel???