I have my trans out and am going to replace the clutch at the same time. My car is a daily driver and i don't really race it. What clutch kit would you suggest i get and where is a good place to get it. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

stock 5th gen clutch and pressure plate..

 

where is a good place to pick up a 5th gen clutch, beside the local stealership

 

did you try local parts store?

 

Oriely auto shows the same part # for 4th gen and 5th gen ... so maybe not the local parts store. possibly the classifieds or group deals .... dunno, but i need to look sooon too (gotta do IPS bearing boo hoo !!!)

 

when people say the stock 5th gen clutch, they mean the OEM one... one that you are not going to find at a part's store. get a hold of dave b.

 

This is only gonna come from Nissan...

 

whats the advantage of going for a 5th gen clutch over lets say the exedy clutch kit for likt 150$ on the internet? am i going to noice a different over my stock 4th gen clutch

 

i had one of those stage-1 exedy or what ever that is off of ebay, installed on my 95....man hate to say it but it wasnt bad at all......

 

wrong wrong wrong, the 5th gen clutch is made by exedy, when you get an exedy off of e-bay unless you get ripped off that's what you get, and for MUCH cheaper. I go directly through speedsolutions now, they are in lambert, ca, I've ordered exedy maxima clutches from them countless times and everybody loves them

 

But aren't the pressure plate and TB Nissan Parts? I know the disk itself was Exedy, but I thought when I put mine in the other parts were Nissan parts?

My bad on the misleading post there

 

The pressure plates aren't made by nissan either, on the 4th gen's they actually say unisia because that's who supplies the stock clutch on 4th gens, 5th gens say exedy as well iirc, but they are deffinitly made by exedy as well, the throw-out bearing isn't made by nissan either, actually none of the bearings on a maxima are, I believ it's ntk, I could be wrong, but you get the same one with the exedy kits as well. It's all good, I never knew that for awhile myself, I was probably a little harsh, I'm the king of recommending nissan parts for alot of things, the japenese make much more quality stuff than that made in the usa, german stuff isn't bad either (Bosch oil filters ftw!)