Is this a bad install or just a cheap clutch?

what up Hissin? Anyway, its mostly upper RPM but do think it is a little worse the higher the gear...I'll have to take it out tomorrow after work to be sure..I think its mostly independent of gear...
mo..to my knowledge it is impossible to install a flywheel wrong b/c of the bolt layout..though its been a while since I did one, I'd need a second opinion...

should be 50 (and I'm assuming Summit shipped what I ordered)...but if it were off, wouldn't it affect things even lower in the rpm band?

oh boy, I hope I didn't waste $300 on installing the wrong flywheel... remind me what is the stock balance for our engines.. I thought it was 50. I had CHP balance mine to whatever stock was and I used my old balancer (non-stock) and flywheel on the new engine for nearly 2K with no problems..the summit racing site says its 50oz(not that I put stock in that)

You gotta hear this...

Okay, so I took the car back today b/c I realized that the vibration was happening even when reving in neutral. It is there throughout but just gets worse at the rpms go up. When I got there the owner was not there. People were nice until the mechanic got back from lunch. He sat in the car with me and I let him feel the vibration..his response was something like, "so, they're your parts, your brought them and we put them in, there's only one way to do it." (note - insert a lot of attitude and a big chip on the shoulder). Now heaven forbid, I started asking him about how he did it and he was getting really upset and started droppin the f-bomb on me. I told him to get out of the car. I tried to ask him how he did it but he kept getting upset so I went to the front and got the owner on the line. While the owner called the mechanic to get his side, one of the other mechanics noted to me that the new flywheel didn't come with any of those little pins (read: alignment dowels). I said that the new ones don't come with them and that they had to be taken from the old flywheel. He admitted that they had put the new flywheel in without the dowels. Now, I'm not the best mechanic in the world, but as far as I can tell, those things are not only needed to properly align the pressure plate, but they also have weight. Trying to install the flywheel and clutch without these could cause a problem couldn't it?
The owner said that they would look at it but didn't want to talk about things like torque values. This really pisses me off b/c when I took the car in he assured me that they were "all about performance" but how can you be all about performance and not care about torque values or tightening sequences, or remenbering to use the FREAKING alignment dowels??? I left my car, hopefully the owner (who seems like a decent guy BTW) will make things right..If he doesn't I'm gonna sue him.

I did pay with credit card though I must admit I'm not sure about the process of disputing a charge.

They have the car now and I trust the the owner is going to try to make it right, I just don't think that he believes hand torquing vs air guns is as critical as I do. If I get it back and it drives fine I guess I'd be happy but just knowing that it wasn't done to spec would grind at me. I'll print out ford's notes and see if I can get them to budge.

well, live and learn I guess...
Long story short, I had the guys install the dowels and torque everything down by hand to spec and the vibration was still there.
After that, based on the shop owner's recommendation, I let them machine the flywheel and reinstall, and everything was fine.
The good news is that the car runs nice..the bad news is that it cost me another $350.
What rips me too is that I spend $100 for a new flywheel b/c I wanted things to be perfect...damn. Oh well, at least it's good now.