Chevy flywheels - concluded

[kenkelly at lucent.com]

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
Dan Zorde wrote:
> 
> Thanks to everyone who contributed their ideas and thoughts on my flywheel
> question.  I talked to a clutch manufacturer who is not too far away (showed me
> a nice AU$1200 racing clutch plate they had just done for a Nissan 200SX).
>  Anyway it'll cost me between AU$400-500 to have the flywheel machined, get a
> clutch plate built up as well as a 3900lb pressure plate that they also custom
> build themselves (apparently they have had problems with expensive aftermarket
> Chev pressure plates ?).  He guarranteed me complete driveability and that my
> diff would break before the clutch would slip again (don't know whether thats
> good or bad).
> 
> Anyway thanks again
> 
> Dan     dzorde at soanar.com.au