OED666 Member 129 Member For: 20y 3m 16d Gender: Male Location: Gold Coast, Qld Posted 23/01/13 01:19 AM Posted 23/01/13 01:19 AM What about claims of big kw rated clutches failing way below rated limits and had been installed by very reputiable workshops ?Whats in the pipe line for these members ?The customer either needs to contact us, or the distributor they purchased it from. It will be assessed on a case by case basis. If the car has been used at a track, it has no warranty. No clutch supplier will warrant a clutch used for race use! Please inform me if this is not the case. As for clutches failing with less than the rated power. My work ute is a VE SS-V. It had our Option 3 fitted within 1,000k's of buying it new. It now has 125,xxxk's on the clock. It is my work vehicle, and I'll be honest, it gets driven "spiritedly"! I have NEVER done a burnout in this car, but it gets pushed through the gears a lot! Yes, it only has 245RWKW (nothing fantastic) but I do 1,000k's a week, driven at PowerCruise, carrying WAY too much weight (had rear upper spring bushes replaced last week, Expensive Daewoo in Brisbane have never supplied them before) and the clutch is fine. Do you think manner of operation has anything to do with clutch life?Can someone please answer this for me... You purchase a set of tyres for your car, go and do burnouts etc and then go back to the tyre shop and say the tyres are worn? Do you think they will just throw another set of tyres on for free? 1
OED666 Member 129 Member For: 20y 3m 16d Gender: Male Location: Gold Coast, Qld Posted 23/01/13 01:23 AM Posted 23/01/13 01:23 AM Got any pics of the damage a dodgy stock spigot bearing does to the input shaft?This is an LS1 input shaft, but they run the same style of standard spigot bearing.
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Legacy Donating Member 23,708 Member For: 18y 4m 9d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 23/01/13 01:24 AM Posted 23/01/13 01:24 AM If the tyres are rated for 2min of burnout at 100kph but only lasted 55 seconds at 95kph Yes bloody oth especially if these tyres are $2500+ 3
STAINLESS again plz You've changed man.... Legacy Donating Member 8,142 Member For: 15y 9m 13d Gender: Male Location: 2 Fuchsia Court, Narre Warren. 3805 Posted 23/01/13 01:56 AM Posted 23/01/13 01:56 AM I dont doubt id still have my stock clutch had the flywheel bolts not come loose. It didnt slip once...What does that say about my manner of operation.
OED666 Member 129 Member For: 20y 3m 16d Gender: Male Location: Gold Coast, Qld Posted 23/01/13 02:05 AM Posted 23/01/13 02:05 AM If the tyres are rated for 2min of burnout at 100kph but only lasted 55 seconds at 95kphYes bloody oth especially if these tyres are $2500+The clutches we offer are given an expected power rating under normal driving conditions. Its the same with tyres.. I have no doubts they can hold the power expected, when driven properly! Take for instance this guy.. He purchased a clutch rated for 500RWHP for his ED 6 cylinder turbo. It was tuned with 370RWHP, and it failed in 5 days. No warranty! We did a mad clutch change that night and put in a standard BF N/A XR6 clutch and it lasted the rest of the weekend, with plenty of racing (and it did slip a bit in 4th).Few months later, purchases an Option 5, squeezed a litte more power 424RWHP and it gets no end of abuse.Same car with Option 5 I have personally been in this car with 4 other poeple, popped the clutch in 3rd and 4th and it turns the tyres.
OED666 Member 129 Member For: 20y 3m 16d Gender: Male Location: Gold Coast, Qld Posted 23/01/13 02:12 AM Posted 23/01/13 02:12 AM (edited) I dont doubt id still have my stock clutch had the flywheel bolts not come loose. It didnt slip once...What does that say about my manner of operation.The common denominator we have found is the following for loose flywheel bolts:High Boost Levels, or if the boost comes on very hardAftermarket Harmonic BalancersAxle TrampWe had 1 car that had the bolts come loose twice! We used new standard bolts, with 3 locking tabs which went on 2 bolts per tab. Edited 23/01/13 02:12 AM by OED666
FPVFGS Member 359 Member For: 14y 5m 8d Gender: Male Location: Mornington Posted 23/01/13 02:27 AM Posted 23/01/13 02:27 AM It seems to be ceramic is great for the track and not for the road but the organic is great for road and bad at the track ( drag ) with slicks ... Is there any other composite that could handle both track and street .. ?
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Legacy Donating Member 19,334 Member For: 21y 17d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 23/01/13 02:43 AM Posted 23/01/13 02:43 AM It used to be quite common back in the day to fit one cerametallic and one organic plate to the stock AP clutch in the early Typhoons. Worked well with power levels up to around 400rwkw
FPVFGS Member 359 Member For: 14y 5m 8d Gender: Male Location: Mornington Posted 23/01/13 02:44 AM Posted 23/01/13 02:44 AM So it's possible to make a combination?
FAST-XR EVIL T Member 259 Member For: 17y 10m 1d Gender: Male Location: Liverpool NSW Posted 23/01/13 03:31 AM Posted 23/01/13 03:31 AM my advice from mal wood was; If your drag racing with an organic, dont slip it, just dump it and let it clamp.Of course its harder to launch a car that way, but you wont fry the clutch either...im running a malwood option 3+ with the braided blead lines. its been in the car about 2 years now, car has just over 300rwkw (nothing crazy), but have had no issues and its gets driven with spirit daily. clutch pedal feel is almost like std...personally, im more than happy with this clutch.
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