I totally forgot to say in this post that I have a 1970 Mach 1 and not a pantera.
I don't know what are the differences, but I guess theory about flywheel steel vs iron, and balancer behavior remains the same.
@ Shadetree, I thought to this lighter flywheel but I'm worried about the driveability, maybe it will hurt it, my car is a road car, a mustang most of the time to be driven normally on the country side. Also the problem is that cost may be quite high (for aluminium) ( + shipping to EU ......
)@ PanteraDoug
I see exactly for the balancer, maybe I should go for an hydraulic damper to protect the crank.
For the balancing I see also, in fact one of my question was the one you answered : what will happened after having balanced every thing if I want to change some thing. But If I understood well component you buy afterward are supposed to be already prebalanced like the one I would remove. And that's clear for me too that well or not balanced it does not changes really the centrifugal forces the flywheel will see.
For the clutch I have at the moment a trinagle shape mechanism, with a standard friction. Since I'll run maybe a biger cam or the same I see only the compression ratio as source of additional torque, so I was wondering if it was worth changing it as It is new and did not slip. (should I balance it separately at zero ?)
Regarding the flywheel, I saw a 90$ one on ebay, and a 160$ one I though they would be in any case less brittle than my cast one, what do you know these kind of parts ? are there some counter indications to use them ?
I've been told also to have a look to the windsor 302 flywheel which bolts on the cleveland with less inertia, any one has tried ?
PS PanteraDoug : my head are at the machinist, guide OD are cut away ready to press the bronze ones you ordered for me
Jérémie