LOL, pics of my old flywheel and clutch....yikes! (Clutching in agony)

[Hollywood77]

Just thought I'd share these...

I drove my car, while waiting on my clutch to show up, to the point where it ALMOST wouldn't move under its own power...

NOT what I wanted to do, but I didn't have any other choice...

Stock flywheel, complete with some nasty cracks:

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Stock clutch disc, worn down PAST the rivets:

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Like I said, no real reason to be posting these, I just thought I'd share.
Look closely, and you can see the grooves on the friction surface of my pressure plate...YIKES!! They were deep enough that a marble would roll perfectly in them:

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[PIMking]

You need to be arrested for beat on that girl. ouch.

 

[SOADweskey]

You did a number on that thing it looks worse than my centerforce. This clutch still worked but at 40,000 miles of drag and road racing it wouldn't hold over 315 lb-ft of torque and it slipped bad on the dyno.

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[ericbev]

The rivets were never intended to be used as some sort of custom dual-friction design ya know....

 

[gsxtasy]

Haha, all your surfaces look purple.^^

 

[Siwel]

Haha once it's down to the rivets does it classify as being a button clutch?!

 

[Hollywood77]

I cringed every time I started the car....

I'm lucky that I only live 1.2 miles from where I work....
Clutch was slippin' so bad that I could only get the car moving on a LEVEL surface. And even then, it'd take me almost 30 seconds to get up to 30 mph...

Then, of course, since I'm putzin' along, every kid with a Civic and a cheap muffler wants to race...

But MAN, when I dropped that tranny and unbolted the pressure plate.....I knew it was baaaaad, but I didn't know it'd look like that!!

 

[SOADweskey]

You definitely pushed that clutch way passed where it was supposed to go. I don't think I have ever gotten to the point where rivets dig groves in things.

 

[nfernotalon]

Mine slips at high rps right now but drives fine just around town, Im waitin on the new clutch, hope I dont mess it up like that

 

[Tsi_User]

Clutch was slippin' so bad that I could only get the car moving on a LEVEL surface. And even then, it'd take me almost 30 seconds to get up to 30 mph...

im glad nothing else got messed up, damn

 

[Hollywood77]

im glad nothing else got messed up, damn

No doubt man, NO doubt.

Sooo much nicer now that everything's fixed. Still have to fix my GReddy B-Spec II tho....while workin on the clutch for a few evenings the boost controller got reset...

Now I've GOT to keep my foot out of it, or that T3/T4 hits 25 lbs of boost, and I just KNOW I'm runnin' lean at that point....

I don't yet have the fuel for 25 lbs...

One thing after another I tell ya....

 

[97 4G63]

Looks like my stock flywheel aswell but my pressure plate wasen't so lucky

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[Hollywood77]

Holy shiot, dude!! I know that TOTALLY woulda happened to me if I hadn't replaced my stuff when I did.

Wow man, and look at that bellhousing!!

**cringe**

I'm sorry you had to go thru that!!

 

[97 4G63]

Yeah that really sucked big time at first i was thinking it was my motor because it sounded horrible

 

[Hollywood77]

Oh yeah man, I can only imagine what THAT sounded like!!

 

[dsmsucks]

To the OP my clutch look JUST like that. It was the very first clutch.

 

[white_dsm]

Aye, brings back old memories. When I was 18 and I just got the talon I met a chic. It was this fling that never followed through, anyway went to pick up a letter she left in her mailbox and my clutch slipped to death. It's been slipping but it gave out right at her mailbox. , I was panicing trying to get the bi*** out because it was midnight and I didn't want her to see me there. Long ass dark road too, about a mile long. Thankfully reverse still had some meat on it, reversed all the way out and broke down at a church.

 

[1point8Ltpower]

Here i was thinking i pushed mine way too far, seems like i still could have put some miles on it.

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[Hollywood77]

Yeah dude, compared to what I had, I could've used your old stuff as an upgrade,

I still can't believe how bad my stuff was when I finally pulled it off the car...