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[Jim Green]

On 4/2/06, Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:
>
>
> Well the big reason is that I've got an extremely limited ammount of money
> to do this. The baby and his asociated stuff has eaten up all my money,
> and
> I'm putting my car back together with my state tax return, which is just a
> few hundred bucks. In Florida we had a machinist on staff at the shop, and
> he still is doing my flywheel for free, so I just need to purchase the
> cheapest good stong clutch I can get, because I need the car to drive. My
> better half is sick of having to drop me off at work when she or kiddo has
> a
> doc appointment, mostly because I work 97 miles away.
>
> I dunno about using a Kennedy unit. We used to use Kennedy clutches in our
> Porsche race cars, but we found that the pressure plates explode on a
> regular basis after something near 15-20 hours of (race) run time. We went
> back to *stock* Porsche/Sachs pressure plates with 6 puck discs which is
> reliable and works fine under about 400hp. Of course I know it's an
> entirely
> different pressure plate for the Audi, but still after seeing better then
> a
> dozen of them go I'm hesitant to use anything they make.
>
> -Cody Forbes


Cody, I used the 6 puck KEP disk and a 7A PP on the 10v with no problems.
For the 20v I bought a used Centerforce AAN PP from Elijah and am using the
same 6 puck KEP disk.  At $99 for the disk, maybe try and track down a used
3B PP or something?  Not sure what style your new FW is.

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Jim Green
'89 90 GT35R quattro
'89 80q
http://www.mswanson.com/~jgreen/car_home.html