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Old 10-14-2011, 09:29 PM
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I'm new to this site but I need some help, I was driving my 2002 z28 around the block today and broke the flex plate, the car is pretty much stock except for exhaust and a programmer and I was wondering if I should replace it with a stock one or upgrade and what to upgrade to
Old 10-14-2011, 10:10 PM
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If you can get ahold of a stock one from a '98-'00 car, that would be a cost effective upgrade. The eariler ones were stronger than the '01+ junk.
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is the pioneer flex plate from orielly any better than the origional?
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Jegs or Summit and an SFI flexplate. Problem Solved.

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there are lots of good ones out there that are BETTER then stock i got the heavy duty TCI one..
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Just curious but how did you know the flexplate broke?
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Yep, do an SFI cert. flexplate since you HAVE to do one.
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Mine was cracked when I did my stall. I was going to replace it anyways. I went with the ls3 fp from gm. Yank recomended it to me so thats what I used.
Iv actually heard very mixed reviews on the tci fp. I read quite a few people had issues. Do a search.
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I know this is late but I feel like I need to leave an update, the best price I found on a flexplate was from yank, I used posts from this site to help with the install, all the info I needed was found here




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