Some background: 1998 Civic with an edelbrock turbo charged D16Y8 motor. Received a new Spec Stage 3, 6 Puck clutch and put it in. Ran the clutch normal for about 500 miles. 1 week. Tried to launch the car Sunday and the clutch went out. Well, took the clutch out and this is what I found.

Has anyone ever seen a pressure plate do this?

 

holy smokes

 

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werd

 

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i'd say that had something to do with it. why do you need that agressive of a clutch?

 

holy **** ***** what the hell either you got a shitty pressure plate or god knows what i have never seen that in my life and i have seen some weird *** **** in my day but damn dude i would be getting ahold of the manu. and getting a new one, but good luck and hope it doesn't happen again but it also looks like it broke from poor design

 

That almost makes me want to say that it wasn't either...

1) Broken in properly
2) Installed properly

I'd call the manufacturer and tell them what happened and get them to replace it.

 

just jb weld it.

 

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dont hate bc he has a better clutch than you do.

 

I would definately say you need to call the manufacturer and fax them a pic or send an email with a pic.

 

bwahahaha that thing is new too. its definatly a defect. that how my oem clutch pp looked like after 30G miles and some serious days at atco every week...

mine looked a flipped to early pancake!

Congrats. that thing is officially DICKED!!!

ACT !!

 

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To harness all that powa, duh!

Was that puck clutch an unsprung disc?

 

This just isn't a I/H/E modified D16. It's pushing over 200 whp. Can see most of the mods at http://www.cardomain.com/id/98civicrider Only new new stuff, is an Apex-i AVC-R boost controller, fluidyn radiator.

Here's some before Pictures. It's a SPEC stage 3, 6 puck clutch. It has sprung disk.

 

wow, you've accomplished something there! My friend literally exploded the kevlar disc in his 2gnt DSM....wish I had some pictures of that,that and his spark plug after his motor went boom on hm.

 

now that i look at it closely it doesn't seem to have any scars at all... im thinking its defective. also its coincidental to me anyways that it broke in nearly all the same spots. seems like one good shift smacked the plate and cracked it evenly.

dont tell em the miles though when you send it back.

 

whats the point having drilled holes on the pressure plate, thats stupid

 

Looks like a bad install to me, PP was torqued way to high
id try warranty, but they'll want the clutch shipped id bet
and then they'd figure it out

 

its kinda like the impact was way to hard..

2 things.
bad install

sad pressure plate lol.

 

I can bet it's a bad install. Or unless it wasn't broken in at all.

 

looks like a defective part. that really sucks

 

who did the install?

 

ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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