flywheel lightened, questions about proper lightening procedure

I lightened my flywheel and took off 1 kilo from the stock. I know that its always better lighter ones, but I opted to take it off from the stock anyways. my question is whether there is a probability that the flywheel would not be balanced after placing it on the lathing machine?

I'd say there is a really good chance it's not balanced now. I recall suggesting in your previous threads to not do this. Are you asking because your ride runs like crap now, or you just want to know before you actually put this thing on? Lathes are not the most precise way to do this. If you haven't put it on yet, cut your losses and either go by an aftermarket lightweight flywheel or find an OEM one on ebay or somewhere. If your stock flywheel was meant to be lighter, they would have made it that way. It weighs what it weighs for a reason. You keep asking for advice, yet you don't take it. Oh well, your problem, not mine.:shakehead

I understand that engineers designed them to be like that and any modifications would create an imbalance in the computations that they make... but so far i haven't experienced any problems yet. there's a very slight fluctuation on the idling (i don't have a digital tach to measure exactly), and the clutch slips on third during full throttle runs. city driving is still okay. i'll bring it down again when i fix the transmission. i kinda got excited over actually doing modifications on my own. made a mistake also of putting everything together and not opening up the transmission. now I have to bring everything down again. lol.

i'm sort of experimenting on this car really... won't really be keeping it for long (less than a year) because of plans to migrate to canada (i'm from the philippines). performance parts are quite hard to get out here... aside from the issues of money of course... and so mechanics here try to find alternatives to getting the job done... although i must admit that most choose to take for granted certain aspects.. kinda like what I did. (i'm more disciplined when it comes to doing repairs on other people) I've been fixing (sort of :tongue: ) cars for just over 2 years now... so i know i'm still gonna have to learn a lot. i'm hoping to be able to get to know some experts when we get to canada, or perhaps work in a shop... to learn how to do things the right way! i planning of getting an integra when i get there... with that, i'll do things right.lol.

thanks a lot! and please do not think that I took your advice for granted.... maybe you could teach me a thing or two about other modifications i could do... what about porting and polishing for starters? (you do that to the intake manifold right?)