Hello fellow dsm lovers, i was wondering if one of you with your infinite wisdom could help me. i just bought a 93 eclipse with a swaped in 2.0 turbo. $1000 killer deal, however the tranny was no good so i got a 5f33 and when i took the old tranny off it was a 5f22 which uses a smaller fly wheel. so now my starter is not engaging the flywheel. i tried to order a flywheel for a 93 turbo but when it came in it had 7 holes for the crank and mine only had 6. so i am lost , i though maybe the engine is from a later year but i dont know where to go to run the number. so any advise would be great. i was thinking i might have to go with a new 5f22 but i would rather have the heavier tranny, these turbos are crazy powerful

 

what happend is you got a 6 bolt block and ordered a 7 bolt flywheel. i'm no expert when it comes to 1st gens but i think if you order a 6 bolt flywheel you should be just fine. (6 bolt is >93 and 7 bolts came in everything past that year. 7 bolts, especially in 2nd gens, were notorious for cranwalking)

 

exactly, you dont have an engine from a 93. the engine is from a 90-92.5. so your looking for a flywheel from those years

 

good news is though that you do have the best DSM engine there is... the 6 bolt is a better built engine b/c you don't have to worry about crankwalk.

 

wow you guys rock, one more question where is a good place to get a flywheel, and should i consider a lightened one. what will it do for me.

 

what a lightweight flywheel does is cut down on Rotational mass... basically lighter is faster... ie the flywheel/clutch/crank will spin freer/faster than a heavier one would. so yes, it's a good investment. Fidanza makes a gread one along with Exedy and a few others you can check out Slowboyracing.com, CIMotorsports.net, horsepowerfreaks.com, stillen.com. ebay motors... tons of places.

 

also if you go to light, it can be bad. causing the car to stall at idle. get an act street lite flywheel, thats what i, and a couple others i know and they love em.

 

^ i've never heard of that happening. . . hmm any explination why?

 

get a 6 bolt flywheel and you'll be fine.. Make sure though you have the fight bell housing plate when you bolt the tranny back up, because i had that problem and had to change out the plate.

 

well if you have a good runnnig car it wont affect it, but say you have a too light of one, and your car is running like *** and missfiringalot, then you dont have that rotational mass helping out so it will stall when the car is missing. but i would suggest the act streetlite flywheel FTW!!!