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Sydney
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September 2004
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Re: how to drive a sports clutch?
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Wed, 17 November 2004 08:42
 
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When you start getting into ceramic and sports clutches they begin to move away from a streetable clutch that is designed to last years of street use, hundreds of take offs, but a sports clutch is more 'life hard - die young' because its more meant for races, and with many race application parts are designed to cot a beating for maybe 1 or 2 races, then be replaced.
A standard clutch is deisgned to take years of 'regular' take offs, by regular i mean enough slippage to break the cars inertia then to full grip. This process shouldnt take anymore than a second. The trade off is its performance, the ability to transfer bis KW's to the wheels, the clamping force and compund cant hold up to the strain of a much more powerful motor.
Because of the extra clamping force and grippier (for the want of a better word hehe) compounds, which are designed to handle bigger KW's, normal or 'street' starts become more difficult as the slippage factor previously mentioned is done away with, because who wants slippage when your in a race?
To answer your question a sports clutch is designed for sports application, and if you have installed one in a daily driver, with no serious mods, because you were told you it was 'better' than a standard, or heavy duty organic then you will just have to learn the new balance between slippage, and transferring power. Either way with a sports clutch your starts will be harder, and place more stress on driveline components as it will have less give in it. Car manufacturers spent a lot of money designing clutch components to give the best streetable performance for reliability.
Hope this helps.
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