Clutch reports please!
Clutch reports please! Let everyone here know what you have, your HP level, 60 foot times.
I wanna see who's clutches are doing good.
Me, McLeod steel flywheel, kevlar/organic single disk, McLeod pressure plate with adj Mcleod master cylinder. 12k miles on the setup with more than I can count(75-100) 1.6 60 foot times (8 or so 1.5's too) and probably 300-400 1/4mile passes(if not more) on Et streets, nittos and lately the ET drags dumping around 5500rpm.
RWHP figures in sig...
REPORT....the clutch is still holding nicely! No chatter and you can actually slip this clutch a little for nice street cruising. I have adjusted the master twice and maybe ready for another adjustment soon.
BTW, no I'm not tight with McLeod or trying to advertise for them....just pretty happy with the cltuch considering all the bad reports I have read about with other clutch companies.
I wanna see who's clutches are doing good.
Me, McLeod steel flywheel, kevlar/organic single disk, McLeod pressure plate with adj Mcleod master cylinder. 12k miles on the setup with more than I can count(75-100) 1.6 60 foot times (8 or so 1.5's too) and probably 300-400 1/4mile passes(if not more) on Et streets, nittos and lately the ET drags dumping around 5500rpm.
RWHP figures in sig...
REPORT....the clutch is still holding nicely! No chatter and you can actually slip this clutch a little for nice street cruising. I have adjusted the master twice and maybe ready for another adjustment soon.
BTW, no I'm not tight with McLeod or trying to advertise for them....just pretty happy with the cltuch considering all the bad reports I have read about with other clutch companies.
Re: Clutch reports please! Hard to say really. But when I put it in I just adjusted it where the clutch pedal had a little play when disengaged..that let me know for certain the clutch was completely enagaged. I would have to say mine starts to engage half way up the pedal travel.
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Re: Clutch reports please! I got a star spec stage 3 with HP in sig...its taken to 5k dumps on street tires so far.. <img src="images/icons/smile.gif" border="0"> Hasn't seen any serious stress yet do to the fact that it doesn't have a DR on... <img src="images/icons/smile.gif" border="0">
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Re: Clutch reports please! [quote]Originally posted by Smoke_ur_5.0:
<strong>12k miles on the setup...
...I have adjusted the master twice and maybe ready for another adjustment soon.
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Do you have any feeling for how many miles you'll be able to go before there is no adjustment left in the M/C?
<strong>12k miles on the setup...
...I have adjusted the master twice and maybe ready for another adjustment soon.
</strong><hr></blockquote>
Do you have any feeling for how many miles you'll be able to go before there is no adjustment left in the M/C?
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Re: Clutch reports please! I tear my CARTEK up on the autobahn every day, and it just keeps asking for more, each time grabbing just as well as the first!! <img src="images/icons/smile.gif" border="0">
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Re: Clutch reports please! I run the RAM setup
402 Pressure plate
6130 disc
stock flywheel
stock slave
stock master w/ adjustable rod and no internal stop
numbers in sig
9k miles on the first one
3K and going on the second one
FWIW, i ran a CFDF at first. Got 10k miles out of it at ~460 RWHP. if i tried to hot lap it it would slip <img src="images/icons/frown.gif" border="0">
5800 to 6k dumps on Hoosiers, never slips <img src="images/icons/grin.gif" border="0">
<img src="graemlins/burnout.gif" border="0" alt="[Burnout]" />
402 Pressure plate
6130 disc
stock flywheel
stock slave
stock master w/ adjustable rod and no internal stop
numbers in sig
9k miles on the first one
3K and going on the second one
FWIW, i ran a CFDF at first. Got 10k miles out of it at ~460 RWHP. if i tried to hot lap it it would slip <img src="images/icons/frown.gif" border="0">
5800 to 6k dumps on Hoosiers, never slips <img src="images/icons/grin.gif" border="0">
<img src="graemlins/burnout.gif" border="0" alt="[Burnout]" />
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Re: Clutch reports please! Mcleod prototype iron disk clutch...10K ABUSIVE miles and still going strong....lotsa 1.6x-1.7x 60's (having some traction problems <img src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" border="0"> )
I can shift faster than you.
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Re: Clutch reports please! [quote]Originally posted by Fireball:
<strong>Mcleod prototype iron disk clutch...10K ABUSIVE miles and still going strong....lotsa 1.6x-1.7x 60's (having some traction problems <img src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" border="0"> )</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm running the same setup as Fireball and have around 4k miles. Many low/mid 1.6 60's and still holding strong. The clutch is very grabby on the street, but I don't think you will find a better clutch for the track. <img src="images/icons/smile.gif" border="0">
Jason
<strong>Mcleod prototype iron disk clutch...10K ABUSIVE miles and still going strong....lotsa 1.6x-1.7x 60's (having some traction problems <img src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" border="0"> )</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm running the same setup as Fireball and have around 4k miles. Many low/mid 1.6 60's and still holding strong. The clutch is very grabby on the street, but I don't think you will find a better clutch for the track. <img src="images/icons/smile.gif" border="0">
Jason
Re: Clutch reports please! [quote]Originally posted by BIGBOS:
<strong>I got a star spec stage 3 with HP in sig...its taken to 5k dumps on street tires so far.. <img src="images/icons/smile.gif" border="0"> Hasn't seen any serious stress yet do to the fact that it doesn't have a DR on... <img src="images/icons/smile.gif" border="0"> </strong><hr></blockquote>
i got the stage 3 also. pushing only 370rwhp. dropped it at 5000 and snap the stock driveshaft in half and twisted a 12bolt 30 splin axle. all in the same launch. that was on slicks. i am not sure how it will continue to hold in the long run. only got 10k on it. but seems to be doing pretty good so far <img src="images/icons/grin.gif" border="0">
<strong>I got a star spec stage 3 with HP in sig...its taken to 5k dumps on street tires so far.. <img src="images/icons/smile.gif" border="0"> Hasn't seen any serious stress yet do to the fact that it doesn't have a DR on... <img src="images/icons/smile.gif" border="0"> </strong><hr></blockquote>
i got the stage 3 also. pushing only 370rwhp. dropped it at 5000 and snap the stock driveshaft in half and twisted a 12bolt 30 splin axle. all in the same launch. that was on slicks. i am not sure how it will continue to hold in the long run. only got 10k on it. but seems to be doing pretty good so far <img src="images/icons/grin.gif" border="0">
Re: Clutch reports please! [quote]i got the stage 3 also. pushing only 370rwhp. dropped it at 5000 and snap the stock driveshaft in half and twisted a 12bolt 30 splin axle. all in the same launch. that was on slicks. i am not sure how it will continue to hold in the long run. only got 10k on it. but seems to be doing pretty good so far
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Damn, you mean a 12 bolt wont take a 5K dump with 370rwhp? That doesnt seem right to me.
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Damn, you mean a 12 bolt wont take a 5K dump with 370rwhp? That doesnt seem right to me.
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From: Cedar Hill, Tx
Re: Clutch reports please! Spec StageIII upgraded slave at time of install. No problems, the clutch holds on like a bullrider!
Can't really slip it w/o the car shaking.
Best 60' 1.91 (stock rear) Nittos
Leave at 4-4500rpm
364rwhp/363rwtq
Can't really slip it w/o the car shaking.
Best 60' 1.91 (stock rear) Nittos
Leave at 4-4500rpm
364rwhp/363rwtq
Re: Clutch reports please! [quote]Originally posted by JC:
<strong>Spec StageIII upgraded slave at time of install. No problems, the clutch holds on like a bullrider!
Can't really slip it w/o the car shaking.
Best 60' 1.91 (stock rear) Nittos
Leave at 4-4500rpm
364rwhp/363rwtq</strong><hr></blockquote>
you are exactly right. i have had the carbon III disk since the end of fall and though i wont be driving too much this winter, hell it is in storage nearly all of dec to jan, it has run nicely. the SHAKING it terrible though. you can not slip this thing. it grabs so hard that you just let your foot off the clutch without gas and it nearly will not stall. maybe that is normal. i have never had a strong clutch in any car i have owned. it shakes so hard the car vibrates and makes the interior sound like it is on crack. for all that said it would not last, i am over a 1K miles on it. but the real test will be this summer with the ET streets and not the DRs.
<strong>Spec StageIII upgraded slave at time of install. No problems, the clutch holds on like a bullrider!
Can't really slip it w/o the car shaking.
Best 60' 1.91 (stock rear) Nittos
Leave at 4-4500rpm
364rwhp/363rwtq</strong><hr></blockquote>
you are exactly right. i have had the carbon III disk since the end of fall and though i wont be driving too much this winter, hell it is in storage nearly all of dec to jan, it has run nicely. the SHAKING it terrible though. you can not slip this thing. it grabs so hard that you just let your foot off the clutch without gas and it nearly will not stall. maybe that is normal. i have never had a strong clutch in any car i have owned. it shakes so hard the car vibrates and makes the interior sound like it is on crack. for all that said it would not last, i am over a 1K miles on it. but the real test will be this summer with the ET streets and not the DRs.