What the phook is goin on???

[crankbender]

Anyway finally picked up the 90 talon last weekend but all is not fun and games in this garage. First off on the way to pick up the truck and trailer to get the AWD I freggin lock the tranny on my convertible. It was traveling down the road at 65 and decided it wanted to be in 1st gear...luckily the car had a crappy clutch in it and the tranny didn't let go of 5th so the tranny locked and the engine slipped free and was not damaged...I drove it around in 1st gear a while (shifter was in neutral). So I get the truck and trailer and go on to pick up the AWD and walla it has a bad water pump....guess she is gettin a new timing belt too. So I fix that...not fun at all but not too bad i guess. I get the rear bumper cover back on correctly with all the lenses. I trouble shoot the wiring and fix it all (anybody know what the stock anti-theft is?). Now I am driving down the road 300 miles later and the sh@tty clutch comes apart (I just got finished picking fibers out of the fork boot. Anyway so now I have 2 trannys to pull....sigh! (on the brighter side the car is very clean and I only paid 1100 for it and it has a new 13,000 mile engine built to 90 big rod specs...and I guess the center diff will be coming out too.)

On a brighter side I needed some time off work so I will be taking this entire week off....hopefully I will have 2 cars at the end of it and be ordering the ss braided line to replumb the entire car.

Now why this is in the tuning section...I need to pick a clutch and get it here in the next couple of days. Right now I am leaning tword the 2600 but may get the 2900 with a street disk if it will allow any slippage at all and last any longer (to the abuse that is). What do yall think of all the clutches out there...plz only ones that will take 400+ hp.

 

[Formz]

400 crank hp and 400 whp are different things. The 2900 has held 600+WHEEL hp and is in the 9's and maybe lower. So if you dont plan on going that fast, a 2600 may do.

 

[DMS-WhiteGSX]

I think Aslan (NosLaser) runs a 2900... not sure..

I have a 2600 and absolutely love it..

 

[larryd]

IMHO, unless you want to walk crooked get a 2600 .. Ive heard the 2600 will make you grow a nother muscle in your left leg, I can only imagine the 2900

 

[DMS-WhiteGSX]

Hehe, when I first got my 2600.. I swore that if I side stepped it, the bastard (clutch pedal)would swing up and hit me in the junk..

It gets a bit much when you are in traffic, but to me, it now feels like a stocker.

 

[crankbender]

Well gawd darn...there just may be a silver lining to this all. Drained the tranny fluid and before i could find a socket to fit the plug i found that it was loose...clutch is better than a new tranny.

side note...what tranny fluids do you all have luck with...I have the 90 tranny with the clutched syncros so I will need to hit the mitsu dealer for some friction modifier...btw the fluid that came out was very thin...like 10w-30 thin but not that color. In fact it looked alot like auto tranny fluid.

 

[90LaserTurbo]

Originally posted by crankbender
btw the fluid that came out was very thin...like 10w-30 thin but not that color. In fact it looked alot like auto tranny fluid.

on tremec manual transmissions for mustangs and such they recommend using auto trans fluid for the first 800 miles to break it in properly....dunno bout how dsm racing trans' work but that might be the case for those also, so maybe it was ATF.

 

[L2RTSiAWD]

Originally posted by crankbender
side note...what tranny fluids do you all have luck with...I have the 90 tranny with the clutched syncros so I will need to hit the mitsu dealer for some friction modifier...btw the fluid that came out was very thin...like 10w-30 thin but not that color. In fact it looked alot like auto tranny fluid.

The best tranny fluids for our cars is:
Redline
Royal Purple
BG Syncroshift

Later,

 

[larryd]

have u ever heard of the GM equivalent to BG Synchroshift, I think its called GM Synchromesh, thats what im gonna try since I can get it locally without waiting for shipping

 

[crankbender]

well everything is out now. The pp side of the disk completely delaminated. Can't imagine how it got me another 70 miles! Just have to get the fw machined...a place local sells the 2600 kit for 433 so i picked it up. Can't say for sure on the tranny fluid but i tore open the end cover on the tranny and all the gears look fine and mesh well through all the gears (it amazingly shifted like a hot knife through butter before).

 

[fast_talon]

I have a 2600 and I love it. At first the clutch felt stiff, but you really get used to it. In traffic is the only time you even notice a difference in the pedal pressure. This clutch holds the power very nicely..