What is a Dual Mass Flywheel (DMFW) for anyway?

Is a DMFW necessary? Will converting to a solid flywheel hurt anything? Can I just throw my DMFW in a dumpster? What the heck does it do? In a nutshell, it depends on how the engineers designed the rest of the drivetrain. When LUK designed the first DMFW in 1985 for BMW’s 525e, they had driver comfort, increased […]