I have tried to search the archives
and found part of the story.
I think it will take a while to
find all of the emails.
Found pics of Dave’s broken
flexplate.
The pics of Dave’s flywheel are
very disturbing.
It appears that the destructive
stresses occur between the counterweight bolt circle
and the torsional damper bolt circle.
If a good flexplate could be
modified to strengthen the areas could this be a fix?
Clean the flexplate in the area of
the bolt circles and perform a layup of carbon fiber
on both sides.
A layer of Eglass would be placed
between the carbon and steel flexplate to prevent
galvanic reaction.
The mounting plate for the RD-1C
would have to be shimmed the thickness of the carbon
fiber.
Has anyone thought about this?
Joe Berki