[Jake Raby]

Being a former CH 46E Crewchief I know all about harmonics and IPS.

As far as catching heat:
Anytime that anyone is in a position of authority within a group there are those who feel inlined to go out of their way to pick the person apart. Thats just life and in my world it doesn't matter. I learned years ago that at least 10% of the population can't be pleased and the majority of that percentage is the most vocal online. The tables turn when we are eyeball to eyeball and they are given the opportunity to take a stab.

I expect this to only get worse after my book is published as it includes a ton of info that defies conventional wisdom, because it is written directly from experience. The peoplewho appreciate what we create and share make it worth all the BS that the sharing creates.

The moral of this story is to never assume that the components that are removed from a box are balanced to a tight enough tolerance for direct install onto an engine.. Then never assume that these components will match well enough with associated components to allow for direct installation. Insite's flywheel was out of balance and so was his pressure plate, coupled together they created severe imbalance, even after being mated with 5 different position indexes before being corrected. Thanks to insite for being kind enough to post his experience, which helped me illustrate my thoughts on this topic once and for all.

I stay away from these flywheels and haven't installed one in over 2 years. It's clear that the only way for me to be pleased with a LWFW option for us us to make it in house, but I have more more important fish to fry with the time we have.. Dual mass works fine for us, we make big enough power increases with every engine not to need a LWFW to impress the driver.