So, I had a pretty good day at the track last week. I drove it 65 miles to the track, slapped on the slicks, ran some 10's, blew the clutch and (thanks to a miracle) still drove it home. I pulled the clutch this weekend to check out the carnage.





When I got the tranny off, I realized that I was having a little more trouble than usual getting my 12-point socket over the head of the bolts. It turns out that the pressure plate somehow bulged out so that it was actually touching the heads of the bolts that hold the pressure plate to the flywheel. I had to use a BFH to force the socket onto the heads of the bolts.

There was one bolt that the pressure plate was touching so bad that I couldn't get it off. The pressure plate bulged out so that the bolt head was actually digging into the plate. I ended up grabbing the top of the pressure plate and bending it downward to get to the flywheel bolts and clutch disc.

Here's the clutch disc (you can see that chunks are missing off of the pads): Looks like a mirror






And now for the real carnage:










Overall, I'm honestly extremely happy with how this clutch performed. I put it through 3 seasons of constant drag racing and tons of daily driving. 2 of those years were over 500whp. I ran about 12 10-second runs (multiple low 1.7 60's), 30+ 11-second runs and countless 12+ second runs. I'm quite frankly extremely surprised at how long it lasted. I'll be putting another action clutch into my wife's car when its due.

The funny part is that the clutch wasn't slipping at all until it blew. It must've all blown at once. Beats me how I drove it 65 miles home!!! Anything over about 10% throttle or 3k rpms would slip bad.

Time to step up to the twin-disc


Modified by servion at 9:40 PM 8/21/2005

 

nice what clutch was it??

 

Action 2MD

 

 

hmm action clutch .. i had something similar happen

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1304327

 

and for the record, Im putting on another action clutch. I didnt know they made a twin disc .. hmmmm, more info please.

 

I don't think that they have a twin disc

 

You give new meaning to the word "Done", sir. That clutch is DONE

 

This is the 3rd post now I've seen this EXACT cicumstance happen to either the 2MD or 2KS.....I'm a little scared to say the least . My 2MD runs fine though, for now

 

um did you not read what kind of abuse he put that clutch through?
i think he was praising rather than bashing Action

 

damn, thats amazing that you still drove it 65 miles home

 

OUCH I hear your going tilton twin?

 

thats f*cking insane...

 

I too need a new clutch for my turbo setup... I've heard alot about these action clutches on Rockets message board.. Are these things the shiet or what?

EDIT: The shiet as is a good thing hehe.

 

considering the clutch went through 3 years of abuse and numorous 10 sec passes i think its more than a good clutch

 

wow that clutch is fubared...

bare foot tooning!!

 

another action clutch meltdown.... somethign is wrong and the clutch construction/materials need to be reviewed again IMO

 

3 seasons of racing and it blew when it was on the rivits. I think that wasn't a clutch problem

 

well i wouldnt expect it to grenade like that.. lol

 

yeah id say you got your moneys worth out of that clutch.

PS. congrats on 10s. but you sleep horribly on the line haha

 

nice clutch...a little JB Weld on that baby and you'll be goo to go. You absolutely ***-raped the other guy you raced haha.

 

the disc looks just like my act xtreme 4puck did after going 10s, except the act only lasted 12 passes.

 

Yeah, I'm not too quick off the line, but a little better out of the hole

It was a test-n-tune night, and on those races I'll sit there until I'm good and ready; I like to wait there for a couple seconds while its green to let the other guy think he took me hard... and then reel him in like he's standing still

 

WOW

 

money well spent...and got you back home too