I was running the PCA club track event this past weekend and about 15 laps into the weekend the clutch decided to "not release".

I will be calling Exedy in the next few days to discuss the "warranty" on this unit....

Exedy K20A Stage I Organic
Toda Flywheel
29K miles

As you can tell from the friction material and PP surface, the clutch had plenty of life left.

 

Ouch

<--Crosses fingers and hopes his lasts longer

 

Damn. what kind of torque numbers you got in that thing? I've never seen one crack there like that.

 

I cracked my OEM piece in nearly the same spot @ 49 k miles

 

<-- Glad to have gone with ACT.

 

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Me too, but at 45K. Mine actually had the metal piece that retains the spring shear off and rub down all of the rivets and friction material

 

Not pretty

 

Damn that sucks Jack.
Hope Exedy's warranty do something good for you.

 

.....same thing happened to William (typer76), a local buddy who had the same exact clutch.

I wonder if Exedy is still claiming "installer error" for all of these problems?

 

kack,

when are you going to learn.....should have gone with 'THE CLAW'.

CLAW &gt; all exedy junk

 

I had an OE clutch do the same thing to me. Sucks

 

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We took one outta my roommates car... exedy that did the same thing. Not as extreme.. but chunks broke free etc...

Isn't exedy the oem clutch maker?

 

My old Exedy clutch did the same thing. It didn't loose a spring as bad as yours, but it did have major cracks in the spring holder.

I have an ACT HDSS right now, and I think its doing the same thing The other day my clutch pedal got really stiff and would engage and dis-engage with in the first 1/2 inch of travel. After acouple miles, it went back to normal.

Craig - Who really needs to do some work on the POS R.

 

Jack=destruction

 

It's really time to :burn: the busted POS.

 

i dont think i want one anymore!!

 

USER/INSTALLATION ERROR YACK!!!!

chris - who remembers a far distant thread about user error. huhu.

 

One of those pictures says it all....."Made in USA"

 

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damn...beat me to it...

 

Installer error! Come to think of it, this is the same installer that did the original Exedy Clucth Failure!

 

Jack, are you actually surprised that this happened? Considering it's happened to every we todd with the exedy I'm not surprised.

 

I hope this doesnt happen to mine either I havent quit put 1000 miles on my Exedy yet. I did have a centerforce that was in my SE-R several years ago do that same thing though. The springs in that situation ate up my flywheel bolts and I had to buy some knew ones which werent cheap bolts.

 

dang

 

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As did mine after about 85k miles. I think we can see a trend here...

Plenty of meat left on my disk as well.

 

My Exedy Organic did the same thing after 40k.

good luck.