My new clutch
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My new clutch
About 800 miles later. Look hard and you'll see an assortment of clutch disk springs trapped under the pp springs. No wonder I couldn't shift gears. This was a Spec disk with new copper ceramic pads installed (they're still there) after the kevlar wore out in just 5k miles. Looks like the rivets that hold the sprung center to the friction outer pulled through. I've had rotten luck with Spec.
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I tried contacting them via voicemail and email when the kevlar pads wore out without any luck, so I gave up. This is the second time this spec disk has failed me- I've learned my lesson now.
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Yeah, I don't have ANY confidence in them. They did sponsor a car I raced and that clutch worked fine- but we're talking a hundred horsepower or so on a road course. This is different.
I'm tempted to just get an ACT disk since I've got an ACT pp. I did notice that there looks to be a single 6 puck hipo sprung disk that's being sold by about ten different manufacturers. Clutchnet sells it for $170, yet on ebay you can get what looks to be the exact same thing in a kit with everything for the same price.
I'm tempted to just get an ACT disk since I've got an ACT pp. I did notice that there looks to be a single 6 puck hipo sprung disk that's being sold by about ten different manufacturers. Clutchnet sells it for $170, yet on ebay you can get what looks to be the exact same thing in a kit with everything for the same price.
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i ended up with an act this time around again. I was going to give RPS a shot but they discontinued the miata clutch. I had an act in my eclipse and loved it but some miata people complained about theirs squealing. However nobody complained about them failing so i went with them again, it's been fine for the couple hundred miles i have on it. I like it a lot
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sorry, thats what I meant w/ the HD PP, been watching football and not paying a whole lot of attention...but it will hold that much? my friend had an ACT in his GSX and never had any problems...I just need to do this right the first time x.X