thegabrielles said:
I now have a King Cobra and love it, never had a problem with it. By the way this all happened 10 years ago, I had hoped it was not still a problem.
Ok, this is somewhat odd.
I have a new king cobra clutch that came with my shortblock so I set my Centerfore cluth side by side with the king cobra
These two assemblies use the same Pressure Plate. Centerforce uses The exact same pressure plate as the King cobra, both are stamped Valeo and they have the identical part numbers stamped in them. Side by side they are the same except for the centerforce orange paint and special weights
So I have answered my own question, I could swap in a Mcleod clutch with the centerforce PP.
Centerforce advertises their clutch to be up to 90% stronger than OEM. The King cobra is advertised as 40% stronger. The additional clamping force is thus due solely to their weight system.
As far as the disks go, I'm at a loss. I don't know why the centerforce would not handle more power than the king cobra.
The only reason the Mcleod disk would be recommended over the center force, would be because of it's design. They both share the dual friction design, but one might be better than the other as far as how it is assembled.
The only other reason why I can see that the King Cobra is working in your case is because of the weight system issue since both clutch assemblies use the same pressue plate.
It's either that or Centerforce just makes a real lousy disk, which is hard to imagine since they are such a well known company.
I shift at 6000 and my setup will see some 4k launches on slicks at the track. I'm just wondering why a Mcleod disk is preferred if they both use the same PP. If anything, the Mcleod disk should give up sooner because the King Cobra PP it can be used with doesn't have the additional clamping force provided by the weights