old problem with bellhousing

[PeteyAce]

awhile ago i tried to install a king cobra clutch, everything went fine except the pressure plate was hitting the bellhousing, ill post of pic when find it. what gives? is my bell housing maybe from another ford equipped with a t-5? i sold the clutch to foxracer and he had no problems

 

[88mouse]

What kind of clutch was it?

 

[PeteyAce]

a king cobra

 

[88mouse]

I had the same probablem with the king cobra. It only done it the first time i started the car. I never had good luck with that clutch anyways. Now I run a ram HD.

 

[stykthyn]

I have heard the KC is garbage. My friend has one in his car and it just died not too long ago. it is been in about a year and the car was on jack stands for most of that.

 

[PeteyAce]

this noise was loud and the only way it would stop is if the side that it was hitting i grinded down

 

[jrichker]

Almost everyone who has a King Cobra clutch for street/stip use has had good things to say about them. I have had no unusual problems with 100K miles of street use. It is very odd that the clutch would drag inside the bellhousing.

 

[PUNISHER RACING]

what year bell is that?

 

[PeteyAce]

dont know,i was thinking maybe from an earlier year, hence the drag. there any stamp on the outside? like i can just jack the car up and take a quick peek?

 

[PUNISHER RACING]

I was wondering if it was an SROD bell they took a 10 inch clutch

 

[jrichker]

I was wondering if it was an SROD bell they took a 10 inch clutch

The SROD bolt pattern will not mate up to a T5. It mates to a SROD, Tremec 3550 or Tremec TKO.

 

[PUNISHER RACING]

well that rules that out

 

[BYRDPE]

I had the same problem and so did a couple other ppl on Corral. I just ground down the area where it was making contact at and installed it. If you match up the KC pp with the stock pp you will see where the KC pp sticks out a little further in about three spots.

 

[PeteyAce]

Would this occur with other after market clutches? like a ram? Im sure its depending on the size of the clutch

 

[fiveohlxhatch]

This doesn't make sense to me. If the KC is a FRPP upgrade for our cars why would it grind on the bell? I just bought a KC that i'm installing in my hatch in the spring and this makes me nervous...

 

[PeteyAce]

im still dumb founded by it

 

[PUNISHER RACING]

I don't know I thought all those cheaper clutches had the same Valeo PP anyway?