gze flywheel clearance

[nanes]

hey guys

can someone tell me, when using the ~230mm gze flywheel, what actually causes the clearance issues??

i can bolt my bellhousing over my gze flywheel with a few mm clearance around the whole diametre,

BUT i dont have a clutch or pressure plate and i dont want to buy one if its not going to fit in the bellhousing.

if that all makes any sense, can anyone help??

i want to know what hits the bellhousing on a gze flywheel clutch kit.

thanks

James

p.s. i know the issues are with bolting a t50 box up but its still relevant with my bellhousing.

[JDMJNKY]

if you have a nightparts bellhousing then it will clear if u have a malaysian bellhousing the bolts that bolt the pressure plate to the flywheel hit the bellhousing.

[nanes]

ok thanks,

i bought it from a ae86dc member, he said it was nz but unknown company,

i dont think its a niteparts... although it does have a fair amount of clearance.

il just get the gze clutch kit, then if it touches il grind it.

thanks

[PuGZoR]

One of my mates had a GZE fly with his Niteparts bellhousing and did scrape. Apparently the GZE clutch kit fit a 212mm GE flywheel though... *shrugs* I'm confused as to what I'm going to do about this, think I might take a trip down to the wreckers and see what fits the kit I bought.

Seems that some people have problems, others don't.

[JDMJNKY]

im running a 212mm flywheel behind 170kw i just went that way because i was also unsure about the bellhosing hitting the gze flywheel and cooked a 200mm clutch.

[nanes]

yep i had the problem of destroying 200mm clutchs on my 4agte, ~170rwkw as well..

i just bought a spare gze which came with flywheel, but i may just sell the flywheel and get a 212mm flywheel and clutch from AJPS,

i spoke to him today, sounds like some good gear he is selling.

[rthy]

dont niteparts say you need to do a bit of enlarging if you run a GZE clutch +flywheel?

[Anthony]

Ive tried that combo and the motor was locked up upon assembly. I ground the high edges from the cover plate and removed a small amount of material from the inside of the bell with a flapper disc and it cleared. only just hits and may even change depending which brand cover you use.

The clutch shop I use reckons the 230mmclutch with negative step isnt much chop so we run a HD 212 5 puck setup normally or a mitsu evo cover on supra plate with custom billet flywheel for the really big jobs.

[rthy]

what do you mean by negative step anthony?

[Jonny Rochester]

He means the clutch mounting points stick out further than the clutch surface on the flywheel, like aboout 10mm. The flywheel is not flat.

A normal flywheel like a 4AG one is either flat or has a small 0.5 or 1mm step where the clutch surface is highter than the mounting holes.