jim90gxe

What's your take on them? I've had mine now for 3 months/1200 miles and they have lost their bite. I also can no longer chirp second gear. How have they been for you? Any reconmendations for a different brand?
TIA

JDwyer2821

Same here! I will never buy that piece of **** again!

Matt93SE

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Man, that sucks...
glad I spent the extra money on my ACT now!

I've put a couple thousand on mine already (6000 miles on the car since I bought it July 24... )

Trips to Kansas city (1000 miles), Branson (500), dallas (500), and LOTS of very hard driving around town, and I can still chirp 3rd.

and for the extra $60 over the Centerforce, I'm very happy I got it!



you guys aren't overfilling your tranny fluid are you? that's what killed my last clutch.. overfilled the fluid and it leaked out of my input shaft onto the clutch.... slip city!

Czar

how do you overfill your tranny fluid? If you over filled it it would just run out the filler plug hole??? Wouldn't the more likely case be a bad input shaft seal?

bigmike579

i just put a centerforce dualfriction clutch about a month ago and i love it. its a hell of alot better the the oem clutch. the stage 1 it the cheaper of the 2 clutches.

Bman

... how much stiffer than stock are some of these mild performance clutches anyway? Again, just curious.

jim90gxe

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Matt93SE
[B]Man, that sucks...
glad I spent the extra money on my ACT now!

How much pressure does your pressure plate put out? I couldn't chirp third.

Matt93SE

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Well in order to get under the car, you've got to jack up the front end... and if the car's not level (because the front end is jacked up for clearance), the tranny can get overfilled..

combine that with a leaking input shaft seal, you then have tons of extra tranny fluid trying to get out that leaking seal.

and yes, it had to have been in part due to the overfilling of the tranny.. it wasn't slipping badly at all until I changed my CV boots and overfilled the tranny when I put it back together.. a week later, the original clutch was fried (and completely covered in grease if you look at the pics)
www.ee.utulsa.edu/~mblehm/pics/car/clutch
look at pics 12 through 23.

Matt93SE

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by jim90gxe
[B]I dunno specs.. might be able to fins them on ACT's website or from Courtesy. that's where I got mine... it's a bit better than the centerforce I believe, but this thing is one grabby ****!

funny thing is it won't kill the car if you dump it wrong.. the car will just lurch forward and the RPM will drop to next to nothing.. shove the pedal back in and rpms go back to idle and the car then smoothly drives off after the smooth engagement.

I think the problem is from my clutch master cylinder leaking a tad.. while I stand on the pedal at a light, I guess it seeps backwards a bit and then the clutch engages just above the floor. let go and pump the pedal again and it's just fine.
oh well.. another thing to fix!

flyry110

i think most SE 5spds have been beat on. I Know i beat on mine.