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Clutch
Pictures and Comparison I'm just throwing this page together rather quickly to get some pics up of the recent clutch problems I've been having. ARGGH!!! :-) These pictures came about due to my 2nd high performance clutch failing in well under a year with normal driving conditions. Sure, I get on it once in a while but only go to the track once or twice a year and then launch on street tires at under 1500 rpm. I'll show you pictures of a Star Stage III Kevlar setup, a LT4 pressure plate and clutchnet.com disk combo, and the stock pressure plate and disk that came out of the car. It's also important to note the stock clutch lasted in this car around 65k miles with 50k of those miles being with the car at around 450hp at the crank. I'm having trouble getting these high performance clutches to last more than 5,000 (sometimes less) before they completely go bad... doesn't seem to make a lot of sense? The stocker finally let go after doing a few additional mods to the old SS and me taking it to the track. It just couldn't take anymore but still ran a 12.8 at 110 mph slipping away (not bad though... didn't completely fail until the next run). I've been in contact with Star about the problems I'm having with their Stage III clutch. I must say their customer service is top notch and I would not hesitate to purchase another product from them. They have several LT1 Z28s out there with more horse power than myself and who are dumping the clutch at 5k rpm and don't have problems. Currently the clutch is in route to Star to be tested and have the Kevlar material replaced with Carbon. Star said the Kevlar seems to be a bit inconsistent... meaning, in some cases it works great but in others it doesn't seem to work at all? Not sure if it's the Kevlar material itself that is inconsist or if it is just very finicky in its application. Either way and even though Star knows this car is not stock and a modified SS, they are more than willing to fix this for me and get things running right for me. So far, a big thumbs up for Star in my book. |