Yeah I've tried a few places. Some say they don't have steam pipe, others have 33mm or 40mm and nothing in between.
Yeah I've tried a few places. Some say they don't have steam pipe, others have 33mm or 40mm and nothing in between.
Oh gheyy
Go advanced, quick reply won't handle the power of this update.
So I'm itching to do more of this
And stare at people like this
Now for those playing along at home, you may remember that I blew my motor last year some time and went into hiatus. Well after a slow rebuilt it now looks like this.
It's rigged up to the engine crane as we speak (type) with fly wheel attached (after a quick sand to remove some slight surface rust (dodgy?)) and clutch ready for re-installation. Then I began inspecting my clutch, after 2 dyno tunes and 6 or so track days it looks like this
I'm no clutch guru, but doubt crept into my mind, 'shouldn't there be more thickness in those clutch pads? Has the pressure plate been hot spotted? Dear god no! Is my just under $800 NPC clutch fucked already?'.
Clutch guru's what do you think?
P.S. NPC want between $350 and $550 to 'rebuilt' it. Fo real!
P.P.S. Isn't a clutch 'rebuild' just a new disk and machining the pressure plate?
Puck type clutches will pretty much always put hot spots on the pressure plate and flywheel, it goes with how they operate. I drove mine for two weeks of just normal road driving before I pulled the engine out and it looks very similar to yours.
Cheers James, that's a bit of reassurance. I was also concerned about the lack of thickness on the clutch disk pads, there's prob less than a mm of pad before the face of the rivets.
I suppose clutch disk pads are different to brake pads as in they wear much slower? So that mm of thickness equates to a lot more driving still (if any of that makes sense)?
My brand new one i got probably only has like 1.2mm each side
James can confirm though
Yeah boi!!!!!!!
It's going back in, fuck it.
Hahaha yes I love this! Will this beast be at DFZ3?
I had a look at mine, measures 1.1mm on the pads from the rivets so you'll be fine. Rebuilding a clutch is replacing the friction material on the plate, centre springs if necessary, the diaphragm spring in the pressure plate as well as the friction part of the pressure plate.
Also worth noting if no one's told you before because they look like a copper type material, don't try and slip it at all even when taking off/getting on and off the trailer if you can. As the pads will start to flake and fall apart pretty quickly if they get over-heated.
Nah man, I'll be there drinking beers and pretending to help the lads with mechanical issues but latte lassis will stay at home.
Thanks for the heads up James. On or off that's the engagement I'll go for.
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