is there any adjustment left or new clutch

[just4bob50]

In the begining of last spring I had a FMS king cobra clutch put in and the fly wheel had to be turned down to near its minimum thickness. Since then Ive added about 80hp and 100tq. My clutch is to the point that at around 3500-4000 rpms in 3rd and 4th gears on a hard roll into the throttle or WOT the rpms shoot up but the car barely pulls and I very oftens smell clutch. I have a Summit adj. quadrant and FWA. the FWA is bottomed out almost to the firewall with abut 1/16"to 1/8" gap between the first adj. ring and the fire wall. The clutch pedal has always grabbed high but never really slipped till the last round of upgrades. The clutch pedal starts to grab just below the height of the brake pedal and has less than 1/2" of play in it at the top of the pedal. Based on this is there any one who can tell me if there is any adj. left in the FWA and what steps to take to adj it properly. My clutch, quadrant and FWA where all put in at the same time, but this is one of the only things I didnt do myself. I wont be beating on the car till I get this fixed, but would like to get it better so that I can enjoy normal driving till I can do so. Im looking at the SPEC stage 2 clutch and billet steel flywheel set. Any body have feed back on that set up. Sorry for the long post.

 

[bsedwebt70-5.0]

sounds like clutch time.... I have a good clutch in mine with an adjustable cable but no firewall adjuster. What I did was take off the nuts at the adjustable end of the cable and install a rounded off larger nut and 2 other nuts that are larger than the threaded cable and then re-install the adjusting nut and locking nut - that works for me to take up the slack where the cable would allow the fork to just rattle around - the clutch would still fully engage with my foot off (obviously since the fork would rattle around) but it did not change the higher engagement point. It does not slip - if it is slipping it is time for a clutch. The only way to reduce slipping if it is a bad clutch cable adjustment is to back DOWN on the firewall adjuster until it is almost fully tightened. If you are all the way down like you say - go under the car and try to wiggle the clutch fork - if it wiggles easily it means you have full clutch engagement - if it does not have slack in it you can back off any adjustment you have left and check to see if you can back off any at the adjustable end of the cable (if you have an adjustable cable) Another way to get more slack is to pop off the cable at the "hook" at the quadrant and put it back on a closer "hook" to the firewall and then expand your firewall adjuster.

 

[just4bob50]

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