Chevy flywheels - concluded

[Dan Zorde]

Thought of that, luckily I now have a company car, so this one is only really 
driven on race days and weekend nights.  I had to upgrade the clutch linkages 
when I started anyway.  It was originally linkages, but these hit the 
extractors, so I went to cable, but wasn't happy.  So now its hydraulic, much 
better.  I think the clutch guys aim was to make me a solid clutch plate (no 
springs) and the 3900lb pressure plate, which was why he asked if a bit of 
shaking on take off would be OK.

Anyway, going to drop all the bits of today, so I can get it back by next 
Friday for a weekend fitting.  It'll be interesting.

Dan	dzorde at soanar.com.au

On Thursday, 28 May, 1998 9:20 PM, kenkelly at lucent.com 
[SMTP:kenkelly at lucent.com] wrote:
> Dan,
> 	Be careful with going overboard on the clutch. If you are
> going to use it as daily driver, you might find a race
> clutch hard to live with. Years back I replaced the 6
> standard springs in my mopar clutch with 9 of the mopar high
> performance springs. In addition to the fact that my left
> leg became much beefier than the right leg, I broke every
> component in the clutch linkage over the first year. I got
> so good at shifting without a clutch that on one failure, I
> drove it 400 miles without a clutch pedal, so I could work
> on the linkage in my garage instead of on the street.
>
> 	In the second year I sheared the bolts off the ring gear.
> Boy, did that make some noise. I wasn't really abusing it at
> the time, but I guess they had fatiqued from the additional
> shock due to the stiff clutch.
>
> 		Ken
>