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Pretty much in on this......Will be able to post payment in a week or so from now. Unless for some reason the Clutch craps out on you before than, than I'll just stick with what I got. Basically I want to give you a little more drive time before I'm solid on buying it. Drive'm hard brotha

so whats the scoop with this???? SWAZO

??got me all excited than you go on vacation??
well maybe not vacation but you know what I mean....

Well, it's not going well with the GB. I can't get 10 CEG'ers to get in on this all at once, so I'll be selling them for the normal, but still hooked up price of $350 + shipping.

I've been working in Park City all week and have been putting some......."spirited driving" time in on my SVT -vs- all sorts of higher end european cars coming up and down Parley's Canyon. God I love my car!!

Just Curious, even $350 is rather cheap, not that I'm complaining, but just questioning the durability of the product?? I know that alot of the aftermarket clutches do have a higher markup from the factory, how much I don't know. Does the unit come with any type of warranty on it? Another thing, you say that many others have this type of hybrid setup, did they get this setup from the same people your getting it from? If so, how has reliability been on there end?

My biggest concern here is longevity and the amount of abuse the clutch can withstand. I rarely ever baby my motor, since it says alot of racing situations from Solo2 to Drag Racing, I want to be sure that what I'm purchasing will be a logical solution for the Clutchmasters setup I currently have.

Anyway, I've got about a month or more before I receive my 3Liter and It probably won't be till a few weeks later that the motor will go in the car so I've got some time to let you reply to your opinion on the setup over the month. Is this an in stock part or is this made to order?

See, I should have TAXED on these clutches because when people see the three hundred and something they write it off as a crappy clutch. You don't have to pay a lot for a good product, I'm just trying to hook you guys up. I'm starting to think that most want to overpay for something to feel good about a performance part.

It comes with a manufature warranty against faulty parts. Just like anyother clutch manufacturer, they won't cover it if YOU cook it. Check with Centerforce, I know I have in the past when I carbaqued their DF clutch in my Eclipse GSX and they just shrugged their shoulders and wanted to know what I wanted them to do about it. I even sent that POS to them to look at in person, and they said it was used in the wrong application and/or I was at fault. That was total BS, they were backpedaling faster then a used car salesman. Even when I showed them that it was the LINING that failed they offered a new disc, but no pressure plate, labor or flywheel resurfacing. They said they had gotten complaints on the same batch of lining that was used on my clutch. BUT, that's all they could do for me. F$#@ that! I know I'm NEVER.....EVER buying a Centerforce product.......EVER again!!!!!!!!

Life span on these clutches are great! I'm jumping on this clutch after many of my friends have been using them in a wide array of performance cars. Wether it be my friends '91 Civic with a NA (For now) B20 w/ BUILT LS Trans., TT 300ZX that sees mostly stip time and uses a FULL ceramic clutch and is on his 2nd in 5 years (Not bad for a stip car!!). Todd also runs a hybrid clutch in his daily driver Mustang GT. The only time any issue has come up was with the FULL ceramic clutch and that's because it got so hot at the track one night that it actually welded itself to the pressure plate and flywheel!! But that is the only issue EVER to come up with these clutched, but since the ones we use are a hybrid of ceramic and organic.......I can't see that ever happening to us.

I'll look up some of the past posts of mine on this clutch and link them here so you and everyone else can see my research into how this clutch compares to others and more info.

-Daymon

There's no reason for clutches to cost an s-load. The reason CF and UR charge so much is because they can. This just happens to be a fairly new method in clutch design (I know Jim Wolf Technology has been using the organic face for a little bit with good results) that anyone with the means can make. I'm not worried about it being less expensive than the competition b/c that doesn't necessarily mean it's 'cheaper.'
I don't even have mine in yet b/c I'm waiting on my Bnoon 3.0L but the clutch looks sweet. I can't wait to get it in.

Timing on this is great. I think we'll put a turbo behind it and see how it does. I'll pm you Daymon.

Swazo simply put, "I'm relying on what you're telling me regarding this new clutch setup for our car!!!"

The most important thing here is, WARRANTY, WARRANTY, WARRANTY! If the company making the product will stand behind it 110% and will not question a warranty due to product defect or early wear even on racing applications during a certain period of time than I'm all for it. The price only had me questioning the genuieness of the product. I love the price, just making sure the product is up to the task.

Also sorry about the fact that I didn't realize, this post is pretty damn old. I guess you've had alot of seat time to boot on this clutch setup, so it's safe to assume that so far so good, RIGHT???