RIP clutch
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Burning Brakes
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From: Houston Texas
RIP clutch
Born: 1999
Died: 1/13/2012 (Friday the 13th
)
92,5xx miles old
Pulled it off the trailer last night, and backed it into the garage. This morning, there is still the faint scent of toasted clutch in there!
I trailered the car down to the track yesterday, in case "something" happened. Specs are 435/390 with the current setup, and had a fresh set of ET Street radials on the car for the first time. Every car that shouldn't have been out at the track WAS, and were spilling fluids half track/ driving into the gravel pit because of not turning off/ you name it. I was in the staging lanes for over 1.5hrs to make my first pass.
Finally got up there... got the tires nice and warm, with pressure set at 14-15psi... launched just shy of 4k rpm, and came in to the clutch pretty aggressive (not drop)... aaaaand goodbye clutch!
I tried one more pass for kicks just rolling out with a 2.3 60' and then got on it, and had some nice rpm floating through the gears
DONE!
Looks like I am in the market for a clutch, and will go ahead and replace hydraulics/add tick master cylinder/bleeder while at it. The trend I seem so read in here is to go McLeod for a dual... I may go this way, as I like the dual idea, but I really am not a big fan of the adapter piece. I am going to need to replace the flywheel anyway, so that opens the doors I guess.
While in there, does anyone see it worth the effort/expense to change over to the later prop shaft assemblies with 12mm bolts from the 10mm version that is in my '99? Has anyone had any issues with the earlier 10mm versions?
Died: 1/13/2012 (Friday the 13th
)92,5xx miles old
Pulled it off the trailer last night, and backed it into the garage. This morning, there is still the faint scent of toasted clutch in there!
I trailered the car down to the track yesterday, in case "something" happened. Specs are 435/390 with the current setup, and had a fresh set of ET Street radials on the car for the first time. Every car that shouldn't have been out at the track WAS, and were spilling fluids half track/ driving into the gravel pit because of not turning off/ you name it. I was in the staging lanes for over 1.5hrs to make my first pass.
Finally got up there... got the tires nice and warm, with pressure set at 14-15psi... launched just shy of 4k rpm, and came in to the clutch pretty aggressive (not drop)... aaaaand goodbye clutch!
I tried one more pass for kicks just rolling out with a 2.3 60' and then got on it, and had some nice rpm floating through the gears
DONE!Looks like I am in the market for a clutch, and will go ahead and replace hydraulics/add tick master cylinder/bleeder while at it. The trend I seem so read in here is to go McLeod for a dual... I may go this way, as I like the dual idea, but I really am not a big fan of the adapter piece. I am going to need to replace the flywheel anyway, so that opens the doors I guess.
While in there, does anyone see it worth the effort/expense to change over to the later prop shaft assemblies with 12mm bolts from the 10mm version that is in my '99? Has anyone had any issues with the earlier 10mm versions?
Best of luck on the new clutch. 
