AScholtes

Well that takes the fun out of everything... what about Koala's?

Darwantae951

Well, finally felt good enough to work on the car some today. Pulled the old clutch off and got the new clutch ready to go on. Lets hope this time it works!

hevquip

Of course you have no kangaroos in your backyard, they've all been scared off by the hungry dingos out on baby runs in the suburbs

Darwantae951

Car finally has a clutch that works as it should! Could spin the TT driveshaft by hand without transmission installed (I thought the old set-up could have been binding due to everything being new). I'll let you guys know how the southbend set-up holds up.

Crazy Eddie

Hi Five Darwin
It must feel great !
Ed

Tom M'Guinn

Did you go with the OFE disk and their higher-clamping pressure plate? That's what I have, and find it to be a much more street friendly set up than my old spec 4-puck -- almost stock like engagement. I have not been able to truly stress test it, however, since I've been having head sealing issues. It held fine up to 18psi (about 400-425rwhp), but I haven't really been able to test it beyond that. The one time my boost controller failed and the boost spiked to over 30psi (around 550-600rwhp I'd guess), something spun (and the HG blew), but it happened so fast I was never sure whether it was the tires or the clutch...

Darwantae951

The disc I chose is the hybrid feramic/kevlar I believe. And yes to the PP, nice to see that factory pieces are used, made me feel better seeing as the last set-up didn't work for ****!

95ONE

ok.. and no one rides horseback down the streets in Houston, Texas! lol. Honestly, I saw a person doing that through peoples yards last year. Even though I live in Texas, it was still weird.

Tom M'Guinn

The one I have is their feramic on one side and an organic (stock-like) on the other. They call it OFE for Oranic/FEramic. Didn't know they offered a Kevlar -- is it supposed to hold more power than the OFE?

95ONE

The hybrids are almost always a fail for high torque.

Darwantae951

I will let you know how it goes.

Today was some pretty descent progress...

Installed:
Front bumper
test pipe
wastegate
cat-back
finished torquing up transaxle
drivers side CV axle

Tomorrow should be even more progress!

m73m95

Keep us updated on the clutch.

I know of another RLer that has the same setup, only with an aluminum flywheel, and is having problems with the clutch. He's not sure if its the Feramic/organic disk, or something else....but its not up to the task of holding a 400+ HP 951.

I'm thinking about the same setup as well, when I build my motor.... But I am thinking Feramic on both sides.

VWaddict

Looks more like a Hakko soldering iron to me...

Scott H

Yup. Still though, almost as serious as a flamed 6v battery, only more useful.

Tom M'Guinn

IIRC, Southbend told me not to use their feramic material with an aluminum flywheel. Mine has held to 18psi on my 3 liter, which extrapolates to maybe 425rwhp based on prior dyno runs at higher and lower boost levels.