Ok I should learn by now that this is the best place to post these things. Sorry for the repeat.
My fiance bought me a ACT s/s clutch on Wednsday and I was wondering how long should I give it before I race? I also bought a resurfaced 11 lb. flywheel. I have been dying not being able to hit v-tec and race. Should it be good by this Thursday for the track? We were told wait 250 miles.

 

Read the drag section, I answered you there.

 

The OO and SS disc require 200-300 mile break-in while the race discs require a few hard slips before and driving or racing. Make sure you don't over heat the disc during the break-in!

 

Cool. Well I don't take the rpm's past 4,000. And I try to shift soft. I have not come close to hitting v-tec unfortunately and don't hit it hard at the start either. Should I be good by Thursday? I will probably have driven 250-275 miles by then.
Oh, and like I said in the other forum..... the flywheel I believe was used. I bought it from SRD and they sold it too me for cheap. They resurfaced it and then put it in. Does that help the break in process. I just want to race so bad on Thursday. And not hitting v-tec makes driving this car so boring.

 

A new clutch should always have a resurfaced flywheel, so that doesn't aid much. If you're that worried about the break-in, just drive the car more than you normally would. Put another 100 miles on it for the hell of it just to be safe. I always do 500 miles on a clutch before roughing it up, but 250 is usually what is recommeneded.

 

I believe the miles have to be mainly stop and go situations like city driving not turnpike or expressway miles. I have a ACT as well and it took about 300 miles of city driving before it really started to grab. You will know what I mean after you have broken it in properly

 

I would do 500 miles of city driving below 4000 RPMS to break it in and avoid glazing the clutch. As long as you stick to this your clutch should kick some major ***. Just be patient and maybe you should take the fiance out for a spin just to help break the clutch in and call it a road trip to make her feel good. I intend to do the same thing when mine goes in next week. It's like killing two birds with one stone, its just one of the birds sleeps with you more often after an afternoon of driving around and getting talked to...LOL

 

if you want to see how the lightened flywheel feels and don't want to beat on the clutch quite yet, here's what you do. drive slowly in first and then shift nice and easy to second. once you have the clutch out and totatlly disengaged, run it up to redline at WOT. Once you get to redline, don't shift, just let the car coast down to 3K and then shift. You can do anything to the car once you have shifted. Just don't shift above 3-4K for 500 miles in city driving and you'll be fine.