Red car going to visit Greg Brown
#31
Former Vendor
That Corvette video hurt a bit.
I'm glad to hear that it is all being covered and hopefully it is just the clutch that bit the dust. It is just a single disk clutch right? Or did you have the earlier dual disk put in?
It's harder to kill an auto 928 and I still don't let others drive mine for fear they will destroy the trans trying to do the same smoky burnouts. As they say, you break it you buy it.
I'm glad to hear that it is all being covered and hopefully it is just the clutch that bit the dust. It is just a single disk clutch right? Or did you have the earlier dual disk put in?
It's harder to kill an auto 928 and I still don't let others drive mine for fear they will destroy the trans trying to do the same smoky burnouts. As they say, you break it you buy it.
#33
Former Vendor
I'm working on a single carbon/carbon clutch for street cars that will be as smooth as a stocker.
#34
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A recent trip in LA traffic I spent 3 hours on the 405 ( LAX to Newport Beach 30 miles tops). This is considered normal traffic. Ease of clutch is really important in todays world.
#35
Former Vendor
#36
Former Vendor
Because we are so interested...Kyle (son) and I took the lower bell housing off of this disaster, last night at 8:30 (kind of a "normal" day, for us.)
Burned, fibrous clutch disc...everwhere. in the bell housing, behind the flywheel, on the starter....everywhere.
We're going to need a Haz Mat suit to get this thing apart....
Burned, fibrous clutch disc...everwhere. in the bell housing, behind the flywheel, on the starter....everywhere.
We're going to need a Haz Mat suit to get this thing apart....
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Was the editor/reporter doing a dropped clutch/burnout to result in such a mangled clutch disc?
He did know that he was driving a 30 year old masterpiece that is as analog as it gets as compared to today's cars, right?
No PDK to help with...
He did know that he was driving a 30 year old masterpiece that is as analog as it gets as compared to today's cars, right?
No PDK to help with...
#38
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Thread Starter
Hi Rob
Mike Musto is a very good automotive journalist and he also owns a 928. You cannot put them in one box. Had Mike been the scribe it would have been very different. However it's a conflict of interest for him to write the article for a somewhat competitive publication.
In all fairness to automotive journalist that test and evaluate new cars for magazines have a different take on vintage cars. Our cars are vintage analog cars. Heavy steering ( for a reason ) gear boxes with semi long throws, larger than modern steering wheels and the list goes on. Sunday I got some seat time in a new Cayman S with PDK. Nice car, very well made but not for me as it does all the thinking and I was trying always to second guess it. I was the driver and at the same time just a passenger. So maybe the current batch of automotive journalist are just wired to the most advanced tech for this is all they get to drive as it's their job. Old cars require a different breed of writer that appreciates the driving experience not the tech.
Personally I enjoy the brute horsepower and torque as well as the feed back thru the chassis and steering. I know how and where it's connected and where it's going.
Mike Musto is a very good automotive journalist and he also owns a 928. You cannot put them in one box. Had Mike been the scribe it would have been very different. However it's a conflict of interest for him to write the article for a somewhat competitive publication.
In all fairness to automotive journalist that test and evaluate new cars for magazines have a different take on vintage cars. Our cars are vintage analog cars. Heavy steering ( for a reason ) gear boxes with semi long throws, larger than modern steering wheels and the list goes on. Sunday I got some seat time in a new Cayman S with PDK. Nice car, very well made but not for me as it does all the thinking and I was trying always to second guess it. I was the driver and at the same time just a passenger. So maybe the current batch of automotive journalist are just wired to the most advanced tech for this is all they get to drive as it's their job. Old cars require a different breed of writer that appreciates the driving experience not the tech.
Personally I enjoy the brute horsepower and torque as well as the feed back thru the chassis and steering. I know how and where it's connected and where it's going.
#39
He would have to have been doing this for minutes to do that much damage.
#40
Former Vendor
The lining coming off the discs is what I expected to see.
I'm not sure what broke the intermediate plate.
Mongo drive Porsche.
I'm not sure what broke the intermediate plate.
Mongo drive Porsche.
#44
I think the magazine is going to have a moment of pause when they get the bill So they broke the only NLA part in the entire drive train.....
#45
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It is GB's fault for building such superb stump pulling torque monsters!
It would be interesting to know what caused that plate to fly apart like that. If the plate was the first item to fail presumably that could cause the friction plates to machine out rapidly if that was the case on the respective contact sides of the two friction plates. If all four sides have gone then obviously not so.
It would be interesting to know what caused that plate to fly apart like that. If the plate was the first item to fail presumably that could cause the friction plates to machine out rapidly if that was the case on the respective contact sides of the two friction plates. If all four sides have gone then obviously not so.