Twister

Well...moral is not to have other people work on your car!

HASTINGSRJ

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Yeah that is true, unless you trust them....

WS6FirebirdTA00

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i think all the issues were a bad set of clutches from them. everyone i know with a clutch in the last year has no issues, but there was about a 6 month span where i hear everyone having issues. might not be true but its possible

HASTINGSRJ

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Great, I bought mine over a year ago....

WS6FirebirdTA00

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it depends on the time frame from what i have seen of the manufacture date, i know someone that has one tahts 2 yrs old thats fine

blkbird_WS-6

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Just my .02

V8_DSM_V8again

there is the Stage 3 and then the 3 plus completely different clutch.. Run the plus if any of them..

I like mcleod....

bigdsz

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I have been debating on the 3+ or the 5. I had a long talk with Matt at Spec today and I think I'm convinced to go with the 5. This is not going in a car that is a daily driver, basically my vette is for that, but it's not just a track car either.

orangeapeel

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I broke mine in within 2 gas tanks of just cruisin around the city over a week and a half period. Stopped chattering after about 1000 miles.

orangeapeel

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twin disc?

cantdrv65

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I have about 2000 miles on a spec 3+, so far the clutch is absolutely great, and carries much better street manners than my previous Ram 402/sintered iron combination. I run a Fidanza aluminum flywheel...Fidanza makes the spec flywheels.

HASTINGSRJ

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I heard from another friend of mine last night that on tech there was a post that had pics of a spec 3 coming apart, and messing up a car........and the driver....

WS6FirebirdTA00

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i liked mine when i had 2000 miles on it as well, now it has 5000 and is comming out to be replaced if that tells you anything...

Twister

MattIROC

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those pics are bad. My PP has a piece missing on the side of it, causing my tranny not to shift into any gear. If it went in, it was VERY tough, and it grinded every time. Put all the stock **** back in, no problems. Considering an auto swap with a nice stall now.

bigdsz

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Are you implying that those pressure plate and disks are Spec? I don't think so.

Twister

Imply? No. The one that fragged IS a SPEC, or at least, WAS a SPEC clutch; that can be seen in the top three pictures. The Red one was the RAM 402/6130 combo that replaced it. Much better! The scuffs on the RAM is the paint removed for balancing.

bigdsz

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I never recall Spec painted anything other than blue and the disk design doesn't look like Spec.

Twister

It still sits as a reminder on my garage wall.

Nate_Taufer

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It is honestly a crap shoot. I have buddies that had great luck, but I blew up a spec 3i with about 7k miles of street driving and only 10-12 runs at the track. All runs at the track with with shitty radials or borrowed bfg's. It wore down to the rivets.

Spec basically told me to shove it after I called them in July (I bought the clutch in February). I still have the f'd up puck which only comes with a 5 month warranty. Ironic huh?

Nate