Os Giken Pull To Push Convertor

[ookami]

has anyone ever used one or had any dramas with one? Anyone know how this affects the pedal feel?

cheers

[sloutch]

Never heard of a convertor. What difference does it make? How much does it cost?

[ookami]

os giken make them, not sure of the cost their included with the clutch. Just means you don't need to change the fork or gearbox at all.

[benm]

I was talking to Jim Berry (from Race Clutch) earlier today and he said to definitely avoid these.

I'm not sure why but he plays with these things all day every day. Maybe give him a call if you have any questions.

[ookami]

ok thanks for that I'll give him a call.

[Duncan]

Its pretty straightforward to convert your gearbox from pull to push, just change fork and pivot and where the slave cylinder mounts.

[N1GTR]

ok thanks for that I'll give him a call.

What did he say?

[sloutch]

Well someone asked this question during the SAU VIC General meeting on Tuesday to one of the Exedy guys that came to do a presentation. I think the Exedy guy said it's better not to mess around with this conversion thing.

[N1GTR]

So he didnt give any explaination?

Im about to use one, thats why im so interested

[sloutch]

IC, erm can't remember what he said. Howcome you want to use it?

[Beer Baron]

yeah, i'm curious too? I thought you had an early model R32? why do you want to convert?

[N1GTR]

Because ive found a $3000 OS clutch with the conversion kit from an R34 GTR, at the right price, so its just sort of worked out

[ookami]

I spoke to someone who had one of these converters in their car for a little over a year and he believed it shortened the life of his clutch dramatically. Not exactly sure why but he said he was lucky to get 8000km out of it.

[Beer Baron]

Because ive found a $3000 OS clutch with the conversion kit from an R34 GTR, at the right price, so its just sort of worked out

but what i mean is why you want to use the conversion kit? why don't you just bin the push/pull converter then clutch should be fine for your push type set-up. I mean afterall it's just a push type clutch with the bodgey converter on it.

[Abo Bob]

I thought this thread was about converting pull to push but aren't you talking about the other way round Steve?

[tas skyline]

I had an OS Giken push to pull conversion kit in my 1994 32 GTR, this was required because I purchased an OS Giken clutch that required this kit to allow fitting to GTR's built after May 93.

My car is producing 340rwkw and mainly used for circuit work and hill climbs. I noticed the clutch slipping occasionally under hard acceleration and got it checked out by Jim Berry. His advice was that because I was changing gears as fast as I could, one foot was off the clutch and the other back on the gas before the push to pull mechanism had fully released the pressure plate off the flywheel resulting in the clutch slipping.

End result was that I replaced the clutch with a pull type and did away with the push to pull kit, both are now for sale in the parts section. RRP of the push to pull is $580.

Rod.