Lock up your flywheels, folks, an American inventor is coming after them. Randy Moore of RK Transportation is working on an idea that replaces an engine's flywheel with a lightweight rotor with ...

When testing engines on the engine dyno, it is necessary to first install a flywheel and drive plate. The drive plate is basically a solid clutch disc with a splined hub bolted to the flywheel.

WP Engine today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Flywheel.

In effect, the flywheel functions as both starter and generator. The system reduces engine vibration and provides fill-in torque to smooth out gearshifts.

The 35-pound flywheel will not allow the engine to rev as quickly as a lighter flywheel, but that is a small compromise to make for the greater inertia.

The quest to improve the fuel economy of General Motors passenger cars has led to the investigation of an engine-flywheel hybrid powertrain at the GM Research Laboratories (GMR). An engine-flywheel ...

Zissimos P. Mourelatos, An Analytical Investigation of the Crankshaft-Flywheel Bending Vibrations for a V6 Engine, SAE Transactions, Vol. 104, SECTION 6: JOURNAL OF PASSENGER CARS, Part 2 (1995), pp.