What's Best Clutch For 250kw@all Four?

[West]

HI, i've got 250@all4 and my heavy duty is slipping. What's options have i got beside from expensive twin, tripple plates?

[williamsf1]

well I have a Jim Berry single holding 559NM at all 4.... do a search I have posted the contact details before.....

[West]

well I have a  Jim Berry single holding 559NM at all 4.... do a search I have posted the contact details before.....

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Mind i ask how much did that set you back?

[ferni]

Use my experience, go a custom build single rather than a multiplate.

My Jim Berry clutch is good. Expect to pay around the $1000 mark.

[West]

Use my experience, go a custom build single rather than a multiplate.

My Jim Berry clutch is good. Expect to pay around the $1000 mark.

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Hey Ferni, please email me with details thanks. Its [email protected] thanks mate.

[Duncan]

I'm also using a single plate clutch. Organic with upgraded pressure plate does the job fine (race use including big launches). about 800 from Western Clutches in Sydney.

[always_me]

os giken twin plate is by far the most reliable cost about 2500

[Mumbo#5]

yer i had one of the OS-giken twins and must say it was easy to drive and hookep up reallll well.

[turbo33]

os giken twin plate is very good.

[PSI_GTSII]

I've always ran Button clutches in the past, with no failures yet.

My GTR clutch is on its last legs atm, so will stick with what I know and run a 5 puck brass Button Sprung centre in it, as they are very driveable, and reletively cheap (approx $500).

I'm not into drag racing so hard launches not really an issue for me

[TokyoTaxi]

I'll join the OS gang. Got a O.S. Giken TS2CD in my R32 ( don't really need that much clutch I know ) but it's very easy to drive, locks up VERY WELL and the pedal pressure is not enough to break the pedal box. With the GT-R's you can add the NISMO big bore slave cylinder and get even better results.

[Leewah]

My #1 choice would be the Jim Berry clutch. By far the friendliest clutch I've had which does what I want it to.

My #2 choice would be the OS Giken twin plate though. Solid clutch and gives a bit of slip unlike the HKS twin plate which is either on or off. Absolute POS clutch IMHO.

[mark morris]

I installed a exedy twin, about 2.5k after toasting a h/p brass 6 button single, found the drivability much better on the twin, got to put up with the rattle though. had it about 6 months and havent been able to make it slip yet!

I think you kill just about kill any clutch in a high poformance 4wd if your constantly doing drag launches with it.

[PHATGTR]

My #1 choice would be the Jim Berry clutch.  By far the friendliest clutch I've had which does what I want it to.

My #2 choice would be the OS Giken twin plate though.  Solid clutch and gives a bit of slip unlike the HKS twin plate which is either on or off.  Absolute POS clutch IMHO.

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Agreed!

I had an HKS triple plate on my Supra and it was very very bitey. No good at all for driving in traffic as it's all or nothing.

Exedy twin plates seem to be really good on GTR's. By the sounds of things, they are quite similar to the OS Giken Twin plates as you are able to ride them a little bit

[PHATGTR]

I installed a exedy twin, about 2.5k after toasting a h/p brass 6 button single, found the drivability much better on the twin, got to put up with the rattle though. had it about 6 months and havent been able to make it slip yet!

I think you kill just about kill any clutch in a high poformance 4wd if your constantly doing drag launches with it.

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I didn't find the Exedy twin to be overly rattly.

Aren't the OS Giken clutches notorious for being really rattly???

[mark morris]

I didn't find the Exedy twin to be overly rattly.

Aren't the OS Giken clutches notorious for being really rattly???

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Yeah mine not that loud, seems to come and go.

I think its got to do with how the imtermediate plate is held in place. On the exedy there (from memory) are 6 or 8 large key ways which the intermediate plate sits in. There are spring tabs coming off it to hold preasure between the fly wheel and the preasure plate. I sopose to centralise the intermediate plate when the clutchis dis-engaged and to stop the plate chattering on the key ways a little.

the O.S. type has a large cog type arrangment on the out side of the intermediate plate that splines into the flywheel, and looked to be quite a loose fit.

Any one had an HKS multi plate apart? Just interested how they are designed, as Im told they dont rattle at all?

[PHATGTR]

Yeah mine not that loud, seems to come and go.

I think its got to do with how the imtermediate plate is held in place. On the exedy there (from memory) are 6 or 8 large key ways which the intermediate plate sits in. There are spring tabs coming off it to hold preasure between the fly wheel and the preasure plate. I sopose to centralise the intermediate plate when the clutchis dis-engaged and to stop the plate chattering on the key ways a little.

the O.S. type has a large cog type arrangment on the out side of the intermediate plate that splines into the flywheel, and looked to be quite a loose fit.

Any one had an HKS multi plate apart? Just interested how they are designed, as Im told they dont rattle at all?

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Someones telling you porky pies. As I stated earlier, I had a HKS triple plate on the Supra and it was noticeably louder than the Exedy twin plate on the GTR. Maybe that was the difference between twin and triple plates rather than the brands themselves **shrugs**

EDIT: Or maybe my HKS clutch was a bit shagged?

Edited August 16, 2005 by PHATGTR

[mark morris]

heh, yeah probably the guy that told me that is a bit of a tool, never seen a car with an hks one in it myself. It makes sense that triples would be louder though, douldle the intermediate plates probably equals double the chattering noise?

[BOOSTD]

1500kg, 5 puk, single plate with modified fulcrum for a light pedal. Prefer Kevlar but brass button still ok(slighly more shudder)