new clutch being fitted on my 172

[markblack172]

The clutch finally gave up on my ph1 clio sport last week and i have been waiting for the new one to arrive and here it is
its 30% uprated springs and cerametalic plates only cost £200 and i even get a 4 year warranty aswell

i'll let you know how good it is on friday when i fetch it back

 

[Fred@BTM]

what make is that! thats cheap

 

[markblack172]

sorry forgot to mention this was just the clutch price
its £185 extra for fitting

 

[Fred@BTM]

doesn't look like cerametalic to me mate, its not an e-bay special is it?

 

[Icarus]

Looks very uncerametalic to me too Fred..... and rather like someones taken a can of gold spray paint to the pressure plate!

Cheers
M

 

[markblack172]

cheers guys
just rang the company and they didnt put the cerametallic plates on (must have forgotten) yeah right, they sent one with kevlar plates by mistake

refund on its way

 

[Gray]

oohhh oooo...

How much time/difficultly whilst doing the clutch change, is it to change the release bearing aswell?

 

[markblack172]

having that done too mate

 

[Gray]

Sweeeeeeet!


Any news on the shed rubber

 

[Fred@BTM]

kevlar is yellow in colour chap

 

[Adey.]

you are getting ripped man, nearly every ceremtalic ive seen has been individual pucs, tho i could be wrong

 

[Tucker]

in america the police have kevlar pants

 

[markblack172]

in america the police have kevlar pants

cool

 

[markblack172]

taking the clutch back tomorrow for them to look at and getting my money back,
fookin monkeys tryin to do me out of money
spoke to them and there now telling me its "sport kevlar"
(i dont think so)

i'll let you know what the next excuse is

 

[Fred@BTM]

what make is it? thats not a standard pressure plate anyway

AFAIK the only 2 organic type grp N clutches that exist for the car are made by Helix or Valeo (Black diamond do one, but i've never tried their clutches)

Paddle clutches are available from Helix, Alcon and again Valeo (i think they do one) or quarter master

 

[markblack172]

he said the manufacturers made them to order, thats why i wanted an uprated clutch with cerametallic plates
not sure on the name as the clutch is in the garrage with the car
i'll look tomorrow and let you know but i'm sure the box was unbranded

 

[Adey.]

call helix direct if you want somthing decent, ask for a bloke called terry

 

[Fred@BTM]

^haven't spoken to old boy terry in a while, is he still grumpy?

 

[Adey.]

yeah very lol

 

[Icarus]

Clutchnet will also manufacture a clutch to any spec you want. They are OEM for the Clio Cup although we actually run one of their friction plates with someone elses friction material in 24 hour spec.

Cheers
M

 

[Fred@BTM]

cup racer's stopped using helix now?

 

[Icarus]

Yep on the 197 its never been Helix.

Cheers
M

 

[Fred@BTM]

i was on about the old ones, i would've thought they would've carried the supplier over, the old ones started off on alcon but they had problems with them failing so changed to helix IIRC

215mm clutch still?

 

[Adey.]

helix list one for the 197