Spec clutches are the worst ****** made clutches ever. ITs pathetic that someone can sell such crap. The discs are thinner, cheap, springs are smaller. Not to mention the pressure plate was defective. I mean it was only 20 thousands off. Thats not much it seems, but when you get it all back toget at 9:00 at night and take it for a test ride, and it shakes like hell and its dragging so bad you cant get it in gear at idle.
started saturday at 10 AM. got the tranny out and then got the flywheel off around 1:00 ... at lunch. Put everything backtogether. Installed all my spohn stuff too (which feels night and day different with stiffness of my car now ..
) Vibrated so bad to cause my exhaust pipe to smack my crossmember. I went under and shook the pipe by hand and i couldnt get it to hit. Thats a "extreme" vibration id say.
Pulled it out ... low and behold after about a 1/4 mile drive theres a heat spot on the flywheel and pressure plate. Rob_ws6 will post pics. My buddy and his dad who helped are machineists, and they narrowed the problem to the pressure plate not being machined truely flat. Not to mention the way that its built is also crap. The large rivits around the edges dont even have heads on them.
Put a Zoom clutch in that came from the parts car me and rob cannabalized. Much much better. I will be calling Thunder Racing tomorrow, and if they wont deal with it, ill go to spec directly. I want my 448 dollars back someway, somehow. Im not going to put up with this. I don't even want the stickers they sent, they can have that back too. What would have happened if i took it someplace, i would have paid 2 times the labor because of them.
I will never buy a spec product ever again.