hello all,
as some of you might have read, my clutch has been very bad recently and its getting much much worse. so im looking for a replacement - can anyone recommend a strong upgrade for the standard unit that wont break the bank?

thanks

stock material works fine for the stock power.
good pedal adjustment helps with the life of the clutch

if you're going over 100bhp you want to look at a clutch upgrade.

volvodspec wrote:stock material works fine for the stock power.
good pedal adjustment helps with the life of the clutch

if you're going over 100bhp you want to look at a clutch upgrade.

ah ok thanks for clearing that up - yeah my pedal has about 2 inches of slack *shock horror* keep wanting to sort it out but its just bloody raining all the time and when it isnt im busy. eurgh.
im surprised my clutch died so quickly though - it was replaced in 2005 according to the service history and covered 800 thousand miles since then and ive done only 3 or 4 burnouts without going nuts on the clutch dropping and its shagged already which i find weird considering my friends fiesta (1.3) has held up to a year of constant wheelspins and reverse to firsts - and everytime he drives he does them yet its still fine. could it be just the cable perhaps thats made it die so quick as i didnt have nay play in the pedal when i fisrt got it ?

Sounds like bad adjustment, my clutch (standard 1.7 re-machined one off ebay) has lasted 15k of abuse with 160bhp behind it Slips a bit now but that's more due to driver error than bad materials

Speedy88 wrote:Sounds like bad adjustment, my clutch (standard 1.7 re-machined one off ebay) has lasted 15k of abuse with 160bhp behind it Slips a bit now but that's more due to driver error than bad materials

thats good to hear then that they last will have to buy a new one then and do it properly following haynes manual to the letter and i meant 8k miles not 800 k
is there a good place to get them cheap? they seem to be about 40 ish on ebay