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.

 

yikes.

is the hub tempered, or is it blued from heat during use?

 

wow. that really blows. i'd be on the phone now.

i noticed you put warranty in quotes... is there no sort of legit buyer protection program with Exedy?

 

wow that thing looks really bad.

 

Now that is destruction!

 

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Yep, pretty busted.

 

Damn, that sucks.

Hopefully exedy takes care of you.

 

Damn that sucks bro. I was thinking of getting an excedy clutch too, please keep us informed of how this ends. If they have shitty customer service they will not see my business.

 

you put 29k miles on it...

isn't the exedy warranty 12k miles or 1 year?

 

I thought I read somewhere that Exedy suggests using an Exedy Flywheel on the new Civic Si. That might give you warranty issues.

 

thats the coolest thing I've seen in weeks.

OEM &gt; Exedy.

 

damn i haven't seen that before

 

Happened to a stock clutch in my 93 Si, but that was after about 150k of abuse, so I would assume that 29k on a performance clutch would be fine. Seems I was mistaken .

 

That picture looks familiar. I had the same thing happen on an Spec stage III sprung hub on the back straight at Road Atlanta going from third to fourth, it felt like a box full of nuetrals. No clutch. Cracked the spring window. Only had five hours on the clutch and I am the type of person who gets 100K+ on a clutch on a street car (rev match 99% of my downshifts). Drove my car from Birmingham, Al. to Road Atlanta (3hrs. driving). Sitting in the paddock I realized there is not one single traffic light from Road Atlanta to my home located in the semi-country near the interstate. Rolled the bitch down the paddock, cranked her up, snagged (literally a gear and upshifted to fifth). Drove it all the way home with no clutch.

Spec built me a new one free of charge. They might have changed the disc material a bit. They drilled stress relief holes in each corner of the spring window. Did two track events on it including going back to Road Atlanta. No problems. They treated me right.

Barry H.

 

FYI exedy makes oem clutches.

 

that sucks but dont you pound the poop out of this car like on a regular basis

 

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I will be calling Exedy in the next few days to discuss the "warranty" on this unit...</TD></TR></TABLE>

Jack, You posted this almost 2 months ago. Any updates yet?

 

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Daiken makes Exedy

 

fugg exedy!

This is why I'm only considering unsprung clutches.....

 

OS Giken all day long!!

Neil

 

that sucks but dont you pound the poop out of this car like on a regular basis


Yes, it's a POS and I hate it.

 

yikes! hope that dosent happen to my exedy clutch.

 

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Isn't this the K24 franken-beast though? if so , why do you hate it so?

 

ouch.

 

Isn't this the K24 franken-beast though? if so , why do you hate it so?


nope, sold the swap over a year ago, running a different powerplant now