In the summer I plan to do a manual swap on my car. Your probably thinking at this point its just another manual swap question that could have been solved by searching, but I was unable to come up with an answer.

The car will be used as a daily driver, and I will be staying with the stock clutch as I heard it is one of the better options. My car has around 280 hp right now, but will see around 350 hp in the future.

Anyways, Im unsure what to do in terms of the flywheel and counterweight. I was considering the following options, but am unsure as to whether they would work together, or would be the right choice for my car:

1. Stock auto flywheel and counterweight
2. auto counterweight and manual flywheel
3. manual counterweight and manual flywheel
4. ACT streetlight flywheel and counterweight (13.5 pounds)

Removing the counterweight is not a problem for me, nor are parts as I can get the manual flywheel and counterweight from a local buddy of mine.

Thanks guys.

 

i say if you are going to go through the effort, might as well go ACT S/S clutch with a lightweight flywheel. but my car is not a true d/d so...

also... i just replaced mine with the setup i just mention and from what i understand, the manual flywheel doesn't require an auto counterweight. the counter weight is "built in" but i do know that if you get the ACT lightweight flywheel, you need the counter weight (and you can use the auto one).

someone correct me if i am wrong about the conversion...

 

i would suggest the street/strip clutch that rotary performance sells with a stock flywheel.
im around 300rwhp and have their clutch setup with the act streetlight flywheel, and i do not like the flywheel for daily driving at all, its great once you get it going but stop and go driving is not fun at all in my opinion.

 

1.manual flywheel has counter weight built in,ie cannot be separated.
2.you cannot run a clutch on the automatic drive plate and counter weight.

 

Ahh thanks guys.

Six rotors you just showed how much of a newb I am lol, thats what I was exactly looking to hear.

So from what I gather to sum it up, remove the auto flywheel with built in counter, then go with the manual flywheel. Then go with an upgraded clutch.

 

You basically have 2 choices:

1. Manual OEM flywheel w/ NO additional counterweight.
2. Lightweight flywheel w/ counterweight.

Mate either of the above choices with the clutch/pressure plate of your choice and then you'll be good.
Just so that it's not as confusing, automatics don't have a flywheel. Instead, they have a drive plate (as mentioned by Six Rotors) with a counter weight, and a torque converter.