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I just blew up my clutch and was looking at my options. I have a buddy that works at ford and can get a ford racing clutch for under $200 but are they any good and are there any other higher performance clutch options for the 4.0 I dont want to go with the stock clutch setup.
Thanks
A lot of clutches and pressure plates are made by Luk. If so it will be close to the same as the one you have. You can get heavier pressure plates i think but a lot of the discs will be the same. I personally have a Centerforce clutch in my truck and cannot complain. I will see what more wheeling brings but so far so good.
I sell spec clutches for your application. Mild to wild. One thing I have alot of mustang customers who use the ford clutches, they ***** and complain blow it out and then I sell them a SPEC. After that they are happy. pm me if interested.
I've had really good luck with the centerforce in 3 different vehicles, and they were really abused hard!! one was an 85 mustang GT with built engine somewhere in the 325HP range. A 78 Datsun 280Z that was my first car and I abused the heck out of that thing. Then a 86 Ranger
The centerforce is really great with it's dual friction pads and counterbalance weights on the pressure plate. It makes for an easy clutch peddle (unlike some other racing clutches) and still has a good amount of engagement force. In my experiences I really recommend them!!
I had numerous other clutches in those cars and I always ended up back with the centerforce dual friction setup.
Yea my engine and tranny is from a 94 ranger and i want a centerforce but i checked the price and there just so expensive but i might have to suck it up and spend the extra money. My old clutch had plent of material left its just that the sprung portion of it shattered.... I guess popping the clutch at 6 grand with 31s must have of done it
Unless you really ride the clutch hard, in my experiences the pressure plate ("that spring thing") always give out first.
It is good practice to have your flywheel re-surfaced while you have the whole thing apart, if you where rough on it more than likely it has some heat warping. If it looks good then you can just clean it up and rough up the surface with some 100 grit. You want to make lines that go from the center out across the contact surface. Don't over sand any one area but make a nice even hatching pattern in the flywheel. Much like the cross hatch pattern from honing the cylinder.
Be sure to get all the grease out of the area, oh and change you're pilot bushing/bearing (which ever you have) and the slave cylinder.
If you take the time to do it right, with a centerforce clutch, you will never have to do it again.
The funny thing about centerforce is when I first put that clutch in the Datsun (late 80's ) they were really cheap, new guys on the market, and hays clutches were considered top of the line. It didn't take long for the dual friction setup to catch on and everyone wanted them then the price tripled in a few years.
Yea when i bought the engine and tranny about a month or so ago i reused the old clutch and flywheel setup and just bought a new slave cylinder, throwout bearing, and pilot bearing becuase they were all shot and used some sand paper to get some of the rust off.
When i pulled the clutch off i noticed that there is some heat glazing on the flywheel and pressure plate and the flywheel surface is extremely wavy so I'm just gonna buy a new flywheel and it also looks as if the clutch has contacted the inside of the pressure plate a little bit on the fingers I'm not sure what could have caused that though. Ive only driven it about three times but it came with tranny so there's no telling what the previous owner put it through.
To date all my local Mustang customers who have switched to the SPEC clutch setup have never wanted to go back to Centerforce. I believe you will be very happy with a SPEC clutch. The price I quoted you in the pm comes with clutch,pressure plate,alignment tool,pilot bearing and throw out bearing.
