[s-cars] Ball bearing turbo

[djdawson2@aol.com]

Yeah... I ought to clarify.  I think the Centerforce is great, hands down.  It works just like a stock clutch, smooth, no chatter, easy peddle effort.  In fact, I would never have really questioned its abilities until going to the dragstrip.  In daily use it works great, and seems like it would for a long time to come.  However, if you go to the strip and attempt aggressive launches, it won't hold the power.
 
If I weren't just a "little" obsessed with the 1/4 mile (listers made me do it)... I would leave the Centerforce alone.  It seems to be a great clutch.  Mine also is the dual friction unit... the only thing Centerforce makes for our cars.
 
Dave
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Emre Washburn <yumyjager at gmail.com>
To: Jim Green <jim.green at gmail.com>
Cc: djdawson2 at aol.com <djdawson2 at aol.com>; s-car-list at audifans.com
Sent: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:03:15 -0400
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Ball bearing turbo


Jim,

Cody Payne runs a Centerforce dual friction clutch, as do I. He showed
a corrected number of 399whp (IIRC) a few months back, and I've never
heard of him having any issues with the clutch as of yet.

FYI, just today I ordered a replacement Centerforce dual friction kit
as something odd happened to my pressure plate yesterday as I was
driving, and when we took the tranny out, we saw this:

<http://forums.audiworld.com/s4s6/msgs/88510.phtml>

I'm sticking with Centerforce because it's been proven by a bunch of
listers, and I never had any problems with the clutch before
yesterday. Summit Racing is drop shipping it to me from Centerforce (I
ordered the LAST kit they had in stock) for $360 ish, next day air. I
also don't plan to go any higher than Cody has with my car.

The clutch was 4 years old, and possibly had 60k on it. The clutch
disk still had 2/3 meat left on it. Woould you be using