anyone with a paddle clutch?

[Daz Clio Cup]

can i have your views on anyone WITH A PADDLE clutch please

Daz

 

[Fred@BTM]

fine, unless you get stuck in traffic!

 

[Daz Clio Cup]

thanks. Anymore?
The reason i'm asking is because i destroyed mine at the pod and an organic won't take my torque figures

 

[Fred@BTM]

what times you running chap?

the helix and the alcon both worked well on yoz's car, but he wasn't doing standing starts

 

[Daz Clio Cup]

i run a 14.5 standard last year. Run 14.7 due to lack of traction then clutch blew.

 

[Fred@BTM]

didn't damage the box did you? the clutch does have a habit of exploding out through the bell housing if you get it HOT

 

[Daz Clio Cup]

don't know yet i'll start taking it apart tonight

 

[TheJesus]

iirc Andy GDI has/had a paddle clutch on his and it ate the flywheel and brought about the demise of his gearbox a lot sooner than it should and he's not particularly brutal on shifts.

Only thing I noticed when driving it was the slow gear change it gives, the horrible noises in slow traffic and that was about it. Wasn't heavy at all, easy to use, just a bit wanky imo.

 

[Fred@BTM]

never had a problem with flywheels, yoz's had been going about 3years now and had 3 clutches on it

 

[TheJesus]

it may not have been a paddle, not 100% sure... think it was though. Guess it also depends on how they are used to a degree as well, ie track/road or a combination of the two.

 

[Daz Clio Cup]

it is a paddle, but he's changing it soon back to organic

 

[TheJesus]

thought it was... either way it seems a bit pointless with the life of it and the damage it can/does cause. Standard one's still okay on mine, I'll just get another as I cant see me having the car to 160+k miles hehe

 

[Daz Clio Cup]

didn't damage the box did you? the clutch does have a habit of exploding out through the bell housing if you get it HOT

Externally the gearbox casing/ bellhousing looks ok (started stripping down) however ther is quite a bit of clutch fibers coming out of various holes! and god it stinks!

 

[Daz Clio Cup]

anyone else got one?