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Recent advances in passive structural control systems have included devices that exploit nonlinear behavior. The explicit inclusion of nonlinearities allows these passive devices to be designed to have behavior and performance that varies with different load types and amplitudes. The variable inertial rotational mechanism (VIRM) is an example of a nonlinear passive control device and consists of a mechanism that converts linear motion into rotational motion and an attached flywheel that includes masses that can move radially inside the flywheel. The radial motion of the VIRM flywheel masses results in the flywheel moment of inertia continuously varying during the response of the device. Despite a potentially small physical mass, the VIRM can provide to a system large added mass effects that can vary greatly depending on the flywheel moment of inertia. The large and variable mass effects provided by the VIRM can significantly shift the natural frequency and reduce the response amplitude of an underlying structure. While the VIRM has been investigated numerically by a number of authors, the experimental study of these devices has been limited. Moreover, most of the studies have considered semi-active or active variable inertia flywheels. The investigation of passive VIRMs are rare. This study aims to address these gaps in knowledge and experimentally investigate the response modification and pseudo resonance frequency changes of an underlying structure produced by the VIRM considering different loading conditions. For this experimental investigation, a VIRM was designed and fabricated that utilizes a lead screw and a flywheel that contains masses connected to springs that can move radially in the flywheel. This VIRM was then attached to a single-degree-of-freedom structure and subjected to different excitation types using a shake table. With data from these experimental tests, the overall fundamental frequency and the response of the system was evaluated using the experimentally estimated system transfer functions. The results of this study shows that the inclusion of the VIRM reduces the response amplitude and significantly shifted the pseudo resonance frequency of the underlying structure and that these shifts in pseudo resonance frequency are highly dependent on the loading amplitude.