Just curious but what did it run you for the clutch?

 

 

 

Who did you go through? I am on the fence on the LT1, RST or RXT.

 

 

Thanks for the post!!!!

 

Feel obligated to post...I've had the LT1-S for over a year and it's absolutely phenomenal. Just as the OP said, stock-like pedal effort, easy to slip, shifts awesome (and fast), it's the way to go for sure.

 

Also have had the LT1-S for over a year. No issues at all for HPDE's. I'm using the stock master cylinder. I like the feel of the clutch better after removing the clutch pedal assist spring.

 

Love mine too. I used the tick kit with master and all.

 

 

Are you running the stock master cylinder? I'm running the same clutch with the Tick master. I'm very pleased with it so far.

 

yes

 

Have had the LT1-s for 8 months. Love it.

Question - Just curious, how many you had your new flywheel match balanced to the imbalance of the old PP/Flywheel combo? I fretted over this BIG TIME and in the end did not have my new one matched to the old and all is fine. What say you?

 

I did not either. Just put it in.

 

I am always pleased to read positive reports, glad everything went as planned. Not the first happy customer to post with that brand.

I went with a McCloud RST (red street twin). searching for a softer pedal, since I have a bad left knee, perhaps from too many years working primitive clutches in dense traffic. I had caught an interview with old man McCloud on TV , talking from a SEMA show and I dug how the guy represented himself and his product. One of the stories he told was that he painted his clutches red , because he wanted the guys in the drag pits to be able to easily identify which clutches worked. Said he just seemed to have a knack for power transfer, he was also a trained engineer. Now I suspect all product has matured, I never read about product failure or unhappy customers from any brand. My clutch just came in a regular cardboard box, I see a lot of fancy packaging on some brands

Not sure if I gained more than a little bit of ease on the pedal, and I don't need the ability to handle 800 hp, but the clutch modulates perfectly, and I was glad to have a rebuildable design with a lot of friction material when I let someone else drive the car and they ground the heck out of my new clutch by crawling up an inclined driveway. ( she did say she was sorry, and friends, no matter the driving skill, mean more than a burnt clutch to me) I used an C6 master cylinder, a drop in improved plastic cap design, and a McCloud steel flywheel. I was told that I didn't need to balance the assembly from the seller, he gave me a three digit balance number with two zeros, but since McCloud offered balancing as a part of the available services from the company, and conventional advice was to get a balance , I figured better safe than sorry, I really didn't know much about the car at the time, but did know the convertibles, like what I have, got a little extra care getting balanced at the factory. I reasoned that if the balance got screwed up, I would need to learn a whole lot of new problem solving,

I asked for a clutch bleeder, but no dice, the excuse given was that they leak. Since then better parts (tick) have hit the market, but I also know come backs on completed work is the main profit killer in a garage, so I think that played into his reply, apart from the sketchy bleeders available at the time, that are now out of the bleeder business. I wasn't about to be other than a perfect customer when my car is in pieces, and the car had already taken up a lot of work space , the job took longer than scheduled, so he lost some money with the work bay tied up for weeks instead of days.

It worked out great . My not knowing the car, however, caused some poor decisions, I'll be paying for that labor again when the velocity shaft couplers get replaced. They were cracked, but no fibers were showing, so was told they were good for about 40,000 more miles. That sounded like a lot of miles to me, not thinking that is really only about three years, maybe two. He , the shop manager, also didn't want to replace the exhaust sensors, saying you never know if the new ones are good, which ,from his perspective, was the smart way to go, and fixing only one thing at a time is a solid way to go in a production shop. I was just grateful I found a corvette shop , so pretty much let the professional lead the job instead of myself. I thrashed around for some time asking corvette drivers around town where they got service and trying out little dinky fettering details to test shops, that couldn't really handle the work well,. I didn't want to drop an expensive clutch job on a garage that would screw up the car.