[DeTomaso] Fidanza Aluminum flywheels $185 on ebay

Will Kooiman will.kooiman at gmail.com
Sun Jan 26 20:46:20 EST 2020 

I have 3 Fidanza flywheels.

The quality has been excellent on all of them. The only issue being the
non-countersunk holes.

I may be misremembering this, but if I recall correctly, the last one I
bought had the holes countersunk correctly.


On 1/26/20, 8:42 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Mike Drew via DeTomaso"
<detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of
detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:

>   Hmm, interesting.
>
>   I beIieve Fidanza products are Chinese-made? That's how they are so
>   cheap compared to established US suppliers like McLeod, Hays etc.
>
>   Not 100% sure on that, but very confident I'm right.
>
>   So a cheap knockoff of a cheap product could easily be genuine? Fidanza
>   USA orders 1000 flywheels from the Chinese factory, they make 1500 and
>   sell the rest out the side door?
>
>   Who knows...
>
>   Mike
>   Sent from my iPad
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>     On Jan 26, 2020, at 17:26, Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   I guess it would be easy enough to ask Fidanza?
>   On Sunday, January 26, 2020, 5:02:31 PM PST, Julian Kift
>   <julian_kift at hotmail.com> wrote:
>     I'm a little leery of cheap eBay products these days, there are too
>     many Chinese knock offs that are visually correct right down to SFI
>     certification, packaging etc.
>     I have encountered OMP Safety harnesses and a Sparco race seat, both
>     verified by OEM to be fake knock offs.
>     Julian
>       __________________________________________________________________
>     From: DeTomaso <[1]detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> on
>   behalf of
>     Mike Drew via DeTomaso <[2]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
>     Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2020 4:39 PM
>     To: Ken Green <[3]kenn_green at yahoo.com>
>     Cc: Detomaso List <[4]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
>     Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Fidanza Aluminum flywheels $185 on ebay
>     That's a great deal. I have one in my car.
>     Be advised that the holes for the pressure plate aren't countersunk
>     deep enough. The shoulder of the bolts will bottom out in the hole
>     before the pressure plate is tight against the flywheel--no bueno.
>     It is a matter of a few minutes to set it up in a drill press and
>   drill
>     the countersink holes just a bit deeper. Works perfectly after that
>   and
>     the price is right especially here!
>     The friction surface is painted green. I don't know why. I washed it
>     off with lacquer thinner before assembly so it was bare metal, as you
>     would ordinarily expect. There must be some reason they paint
>   it--could
>     it be that it helps break-in? Or are you supposed to remove it, as I
>     did?
>     Mike
>     Sent from my iPad
>     > On Jan 26, 2020, at 14:57, Ken Green via DeTomaso
>     <[5]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
>     >
>     >    I stumbled across this, $400 at Summit, looks like the correct
>     part
>     >  number:
>     >  [1]Fidanza Billet Aluminum Flywheels 186511 | eBay
>     >  $185.00
>     >
>     >                                [ebay.png]
>     >
>     >              Fidanza Billet Aluminum Flywheels 186511 | eBay
>     >
>     >    <p>Fidanza Billet Aluminum Flywheels 186511. Condition is New,
>     Opened
>     >                Box. Free Shipping within the US!</p><br><...
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