what clutch for supercharged mustang?

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After a month and a half of having the blower on my car the clutch is starting to slip pretty bad. What clutch should i buy for my car. By the way its my daily driver and it has the tr3650 in it. I see about 10 psi at the top of 3rd so i guess im around 360 rwhp. Also what do most shops charge for the install.

 

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i would say a Centerforce Dual Friction, or a McLeod. those are my personal favorites.

for a shop to install, thats gonna vary a huge amount depending on where you are in the country and what the labor rate is where you are.

 

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I like my stock clutch with 400hp its fine Go with Mcleod, or Spec stg3. I don't like centerforce - had too many friends have problems with em.

 

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I have a $205.00 Xtd stage 3 chinese clutch. lol

 

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I have a Spec stage II and it's great. Whatever you do, stay away from a King Cobra, I fried up 2 of them NA!

 

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bdcardinal said:

i would say a Centerforce Dual Friction, or a McLeod. those are my personal favorites. .

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Those would be my two choices. I have a Mcleod and love it. The Centerforce I have heard a lot of good about also.

 

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ok im prolly gonna be goin with the spec stage 2 clutch. Should i blow the money and upgrade to an aluminum flywheel, i read some past posts and its usually 50/50 on steel/aluminum for daily driver. Or can i just use my stock flywheel. And what websites have the best deals on clutches and flywheels.

 

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Stang01GT said:

ok im prolly gonna be goin with the spec stage 2 clutch. Should i blow the money and upgrade to an aluminum flywheel, i read some past posts and its usually 50/50 on steel/aluminum for daily driver. Or can i just use my stock flywheel. And what websites have the best deals on clutches and flywheels.

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Id go with McLeod clutch and flywheel... a little extra money but i hear they are the best.

 

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Mity Loves Spec

 

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You can just get your stock flywheel resurfaced at a drive train shop. Do NOT put the new clutch in with the old untouched flywheel. Recurface it or replace it with something else .

I went with the spec stg 3 and a fidanza aluminum flywheel...but your choice of a spec stg 2 would probably be the best.
LOTS of failures with centerforce, some with KC, some with spec, less with mcleod because NOONE has them lol. EVERY clutch has ALOT of bad and ALOT of good (not just failures, but just negitive and positive feedback from users) ...its basically a hit or miss with whatever you choose.

Like some buy 2-3 centerforce DFX clutchs and DESTROY everyone of them in no time with 500RWHP and switch brands and then are fine. Another guy has 650RWHP and puts his DFX through heck with 0 problems.
Its like that for ALL of the clutchs. I just like spec, and they have some serious holding power....seem to have the least failures on the high HP cars.

More chattering problems than actual failures...actually very very few failures in the cobra/GT (450+HP) world from what I have seen.

 

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The Centerforce DFX clutch is the only clutch I
would consider because I love how they feel when
you shift.
I never heard of anyone having issues with them.
Also get a new flywheel to protect your investment.
At 10psi. your stock OEM clutch will meet it's death soon.

 

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Herro my red white and brue friends!! I rike my cheap xtd stage 3 Chinese crutch. It's teamed up with my stock 8 bort frywheel and now I have no crutch srip. A ching ching chang chung ching chang. Means I ruv you guys.

 

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Herro my red white and brue friends!! I rike my cheap xtd stage 3 Chinese crutch. It's teamed up with my stock 8 bort frywheel and now I have no crutch srip. A ching ching chang chung ching chang. Means I ruv you guys.

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ok so what about the flywheel should i just buy a new stock one, a new steel one or an aluminum one?

 

hotmustang331

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Up to you. Do some searching to find the pros/cons of each style.

 

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I had mine resurfaced and its been fine. Chattering is usually because of either not resurfacing the flywheel, or people not breaking in the clutch properly. Follow the breaking directions carefully, most clutches require 500 miles of easy driving to break it in. NO BEATING ON IT!!!

 

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ok this may sound weird but just remember i've never really felt what a slipping clutch felt like only what i thought it would feel like. Anyway i went over my friends house today to pick up a quadrant/firewall adjuster, when we popped the hood for him to show me how to hook it up i realized my boost pipe was pretty much coming off of the blower, so we tightened it down and i went back home. Driving back home i realized that feeling of a slipping clutch was gone i guess i never had a slipping clutch and it was just a loose boost pipe making the car run funny. Anyway im happy, i can prolong spending lots of money on a new clutch.

 

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you could also consider a MMR clutch. they are very very similar to McLeod, hint hint, very similar.

 

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DaNd4Speed said:

I have a Spec stage II and it's great. Whatever you do, stay away from a King Cobra, I fried up 2 of them NA!

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How'd you manage to fry 2 King Cobra Clutches? What mods and how often did you go to the track?