On my continuing mission to find the perfect lightened flywheel and up-rated clutch for my Nissan 200sx s14a, I thought I best use this blog to talk about it.

So, my car - I own a year 2000 Green 200sx, s14a. It has (by previous owner) a Horsham Developments stage 1 kit, a Garrett GT28R turbo, a Driftworks Front-Mount intercooler among other things and she’s running at approx between 300-320bhp at 1.2 bar. Roughly.

Its my daily driver, and its begging for a new clutch. But, because I’ll be changing the clutch I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to uprate the flywheel at the same time - as a “while I’m there” job. So far, with my limited yet growing knowledge of my 200sx, my options are as follows (in order of weight)…

• Apex ACT Prolite flywheel - 4.65kg - £299.00
• Apex lightweight flywheel - 4.66kg - £265.00
• Driftworks chromoly flywheel - 5.2kg - £240.00
• Apex ACT Streetlite flywheel - 6.35kg - £279.00

And, as you can see, the order of weight is not necessary the same order of price. You’d expect the lighter it gets, the more money it’ll cost ya, but not quite in this case. There are of course many other options out there, but a quick look reveals this information.

I’ve also popped my question on the very knowledgeable SXOC (SX Owners Club) forum, and most people agree the ACT flywheels are indeed very good. So far then, my choice is the most expensive and, indeed, the lightest. The ACT Prolite from Apex Performance

I’ll keep this updated if my plans change, or what my thoughts are of the lightened flywheel when/if it gets fitted!

So my best efforts of keeping this blog up-to-date hasn’t gone all that well. I have been keeping myself very busy however, with work & getting my Mini done in time for this year’s London to Brighton Mini Run.

And talking of Mini, here’s some latest photos of mine…

And my MOT is booked for a week Saturday - very scary stuff since I’ve bulit this car pretty-much entirely from scatch and on my own! I’ve got lots of technical articles to write, and lots of photos to share, but for now this’ll have to do!

By the way, I am trying to keep myself more up-to-date on Twitter recently, so don’t forget to follow @dazecoop. My Tweets are varied between computer/geek/work related and personal/casual - you have been warned

Also, in the past, I blogged about a web application known as Hellotxt which has the ability to update Facebook/Twitter status’s at the same time. Very cool. However, I’ve since found Ping.fm - quicker, more features and better supported on my iPhone.

Highly recommended - just one simple place to update all your status’s!