My ACT story (not good) - please read
Originally Posted by High_PSI
Shifting at 8000 is NOT optimal for my power curve BUT it still does it. I only have a 2003 but I have hit 12.0 at 114MPH on pump gas and a flash with boltons so I am happy 
. I love my ACT clutch, works as advertised and responds perfectly to adjustments. I mean you beat the poop out of your Evo maybe you finally broke something, maybe your Synchros are going, maybe your clutch fluid is leaking, maybe it has a bubble or two in it. Normally I shift where you shift at 7300 but have hit my 1-2's at 800 and sometimes further on up there, no issues what so ever. Maybe try adjusting your clucth when it is hot, who knows it could be MANY things.
. I love my ACT clutch, works as advertised and responds perfectly to adjustments. I mean you beat the poop out of your Evo maybe you finally broke something, maybe your Synchros are going, maybe your clutch fluid is leaking, maybe it has a bubble or two in it. Normally I shift where you shift at 7300 but have hit my 1-2's at 800 and sometimes further on up there, no issues what so ever. Maybe try adjusting your clucth when it is hot, who knows it could be MANY things.
I have 350-350 according to a DynoJet. Maybe your Act is toast by now? People are all over the place with clucthes. I have heard horror storys with The Exedy's and I have heard praise. Act has done me well in DSM's and now the Evo, it is 100% for me so far.
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Have you made hot passes with this clutch? Im not talking one pass and then let it rest for about 30 minutes then another pass, im talking about pulling in off the street, going straight to staging, making a pass, hot lapping and making another 2 or 3 passes...?
Here's my review of ACT
I have had tons of ACT discs in my DSM's and Galant VR4's in the years past, the only problem i ever in my DSM/gvr4's was hard launching would blow the springs out of the street discs but thats udnerstandable, abuse will break things, but the clutch itself always worked great
Now onto my EVO...
For daily driving the ACT is great, it holds power just fine and shifts smoothly even during hard driving.
For the track, the clutch sucks horribly, I've owned enough modded 4G63's to know when i've got a high 12 second car and i certainly do, however the best time my car has pulled is a 13.6, horrible 60' times and blocking me out of 2nd and 4th, sometimes even 3rd on every pass.
ACT makes me look like a jack *** when i go to the track. but it's better than a stock clutch for a daily driver. I will be going the twin disk route when i get the money.
oh and before someone chimes in:
I have a SS line, no air bubbles in my clutch system, i have proper adjustment, i have adjusted hot and cold, this is not a problem i can cure.
If you happen to see this post again...
Have you made hot passes with this clutch? Im not talking one pass and then let it rest for about 30 minutes then another pass, im talking about pulling in off the street, going straight to staging, making a pass, hot lapping and making another 2 or 3 passes...?
Here's my review of ACT
I have had tons of ACT discs in my DSM's and Galant VR4's in the years past, the only problem i ever in my DSM/gvr4's was hard launching would blow the springs out of the street discs but thats udnerstandable, abuse will break things, but the clutch itself always worked great
Now onto my EVO...
For daily driving the ACT is great, it holds power just fine and shifts smoothly even during hard driving.
For the track, the clutch sucks horribly, I've owned enough modded 4G63's to know when i've got a high 12 second car and i certainly do, however the best time my car has pulled is a 13.6, horrible 60' times and blocking me out of 2nd and 4th, sometimes even 3rd on every pass.
ACT makes me look like a jack *** when i go to the track. but it's better than a stock clutch for a daily driver. I will be going the twin disk route when i get the money.
oh and before someone chimes in:
I have a SS line, no air bubbles in my clutch system, i have proper adjustment, i have adjusted hot and cold, this is not a problem i can cure.
Have you made hot passes with this clutch? Im not talking one pass and then let it rest for about 30 minutes then another pass, im talking about pulling in off the street, going straight to staging, making a pass, hot lapping and making another 2 or 3 passes...?
Here's my review of ACT
I have had tons of ACT discs in my DSM's and Galant VR4's in the years past, the only problem i ever in my DSM/gvr4's was hard launching would blow the springs out of the street discs but thats udnerstandable, abuse will break things, but the clutch itself always worked great
Now onto my EVO...
For daily driving the ACT is great, it holds power just fine and shifts smoothly even during hard driving.
For the track, the clutch sucks horribly, I've owned enough modded 4G63's to know when i've got a high 12 second car and i certainly do, however the best time my car has pulled is a 13.6, horrible 60' times and blocking me out of 2nd and 4th, sometimes even 3rd on every pass.
ACT makes me look like a jack *** when i go to the track. but it's better than a stock clutch for a daily driver. I will be going the twin disk route when i get the money.
oh and before someone chimes in:
I have a SS line, no air bubbles in my clutch system, i have proper adjustment, i have adjusted hot and cold, this is not a problem i can cure.
yea, i'd stay away from it
Now onto my EVO...
For daily driving the ACT is great, it holds power just fine and shifts smoothly even during hard driving.
For the track, the clutch sucks horribly, I've owned enough modded 4G63's to know when i've got a high 12 second car and i certainly do, however the best time my car has pulled is a 13.6, horrible 60' times and blocking me out of 2nd and 4th, sometimes even 3rd on every pass.
ACT makes me look like a jack *** when i go to the track. but it's better than a stock clutch for a daily driver. I will be going the twin disk route when i get the money.
oh and before someone chimes in:
I have a SS line, no air bubbles in my clutch system, i have proper adjustment, i have adjusted hot and cold, this is not a problem i can cure.
For daily driving the ACT is great, it holds power just fine and shifts smoothly even during hard driving.
For the track, the clutch sucks horribly, I've owned enough modded 4G63's to know when i've got a high 12 second car and i certainly do, however the best time my car has pulled is a 13.6, horrible 60' times and blocking me out of 2nd and 4th, sometimes even 3rd on every pass.
ACT makes me look like a jack *** when i go to the track. but it's better than a stock clutch for a daily driver. I will be going the twin disk route when i get the money.
oh and before someone chimes in:
I have a SS line, no air bubbles in my clutch system, i have proper adjustment, i have adjusted hot and cold, this is not a problem i can cure.
So lemme get this straight it's ACT's fault because you think you should be going 12's but can only manage to go 13.6's and have horrible 60 ft. times? I'm guessing you aren't to blame for any of the car's inability to not go 12's?
There are tons of people that have gone and continue to go 12's,11's and even 10's on the ACT and even 12,'s and 11's on the stock clutch.
I don't know what's worse what you posted, or the fact that you bumped a thread from over 2 years ago to post what you wrote.
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So lemme get this straight it's ACT's fault because you think you should be going 12's but can only manage to go 13.6's and have horrible 60 ft. times? I'm guessing you aren't to blame for any of the car's inability to not go 12's?
There are tons of people that have gone and continue to go 12's,11's and even 10's on the ACT and even 12,'s and 11's on the stock clutch.
I don't know what's worse what you posted, or the fact that you bumped a thread from over 2 years ago to post what you wrote.
There are tons of people that have gone and continue to go 12's,11's and even 10's on the ACT and even 12,'s and 11's on the stock clutch.
I don't know what's worse what you posted, or the fact that you bumped a thread from over 2 years ago to post what you wrote.
Moral of the story, ACT is great if you hardly ever race or if you dont mind spending 50% of your time driving it, 50% of your time adjusting the clutch and changing out discs
Oh and please link me to cars that are running 10's on ACT street discs....
Last edited by AlphaMale; Aug 6, 2008 at 01:13 PM.
If you happen to see this post again...
Have you made hot passes with this clutch? Im not talking one pass and then let it rest for about 30 minutes then another pass, im talking about pulling in off the street, going straight to staging, making a pass, hot lapping and making another 2 or 3 passes...?
Here's my review of ACT
I have had tons of ACT discs in my DSM's and Galant VR4's in the years past, the only problem i ever in my DSM/gvr4's was hard launching would blow the springs out of the street discs but thats udnerstandable, abuse will break things, but the clutch itself always worked great
Now onto my EVO...
For daily driving the ACT is great, it holds power just fine and shifts smoothly even during hard driving.
For the track, the clutch sucks horribly, I've owned enough modded 4G63's to know when i've got a high 12 second car and i certainly do, however the best time my car has pulled is a 13.6, horrible 60' times and blocking me out of 2nd and 4th, sometimes even 3rd on every pass.
ACT makes me look like a jack *** when i go to the track. but it's better than a stock clutch for a daily driver. I will be going the twin disk route when i get the money.
oh and before someone chimes in:
I have a SS line, no air bubbles in my clutch system, i have proper adjustment, i have adjusted hot and cold, this is not a problem i can cure.
Have you made hot passes with this clutch? Im not talking one pass and then let it rest for about 30 minutes then another pass, im talking about pulling in off the street, going straight to staging, making a pass, hot lapping and making another 2 or 3 passes...?
Here's my review of ACT
I have had tons of ACT discs in my DSM's and Galant VR4's in the years past, the only problem i ever in my DSM/gvr4's was hard launching would blow the springs out of the street discs but thats udnerstandable, abuse will break things, but the clutch itself always worked great
Now onto my EVO...
For daily driving the ACT is great, it holds power just fine and shifts smoothly even during hard driving.
For the track, the clutch sucks horribly, I've owned enough modded 4G63's to know when i've got a high 12 second car and i certainly do, however the best time my car has pulled is a 13.6, horrible 60' times and blocking me out of 2nd and 4th, sometimes even 3rd on every pass.
ACT makes me look like a jack *** when i go to the track. but it's better than a stock clutch for a daily driver. I will be going the twin disk route when i get the money.
oh and before someone chimes in:
I have a SS line, no air bubbles in my clutch system, i have proper adjustment, i have adjusted hot and cold, this is not a problem i can cure.
A friend of mine bought one and the flywheel didnt fit, he ordered a another flywheel... same story. He caleld Fidanza (no help) and the place he ordered from (no help). We shimmed the flywheel and it daily drove like a sweetheart, car got totalled before making it to the strip. Since then I found out there were some bad Fidanza flywheels from another user on here. If you get this clutch kit make sure you get the updated 'fixed' flywheel.
WARRTALON please read, this is likely your issue as my clutch was not disengaging just like you described and got notchy as hell at high rpm. After following Jack's HOW-TO Video my Exedy Stg1 shifts amazing if you can beleive that. The Evo service manual and our how to's on this board will not fix your problem but following the steps in this video will.
Link to video from Jacks Transmissions on PROPER pedal adjustment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYJxQyjIhUw
WARRTALON please read, this is likely your issue as my clutch was not disengaging just like you described and got notchy as hell at high rpm. After following Jack's HOW-TO Video my Exedy Stg1 shifts amazing if you can beleive that. The Evo service manual and our how to's on this board will not fix your problem but following the steps in this video will.
Link to video from Jacks Transmissions on PROPER pedal adjustment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYJxQyjIhUw
Last edited by Mr. Evo IX; Aug 6, 2008 at 02:59 PM.
i had the same problem i used to get locked out of 3rd and 4 gear for a long ,well my syncros in the tranny ended up breaking so i had the tranny fixed by the dealer... while they were doing that i made sure the mechanic reinstall the clutch the right way and bamm i didint get locked out ever gain
Please, save me your ****, there's pleanty of threads complaining about the ACT's performance or lack there of, I know how to row a boat. This was not a driver error situation, i dont have half the ego the internet does and im willing to admit when i cant do something. I bumped this thread because it seemed to be the most extensive thread about ACT's short comings, even in the second thread made by the OP after he adjusted his clutch again he had said that his clutch needed adjusted after a short amount of abuse.
Moral of the story, ACT is great if you hardly ever race or if you dont mind spending 50% of your time driving it, 50% of your time adjusting the clutch and changing out discs
Oh and please link me to cars that are running 10's on ACT street discs....
Moral of the story, ACT is great if you hardly ever race or if you dont mind spending 50% of your time driving it, 50% of your time adjusting the clutch and changing out discs
Oh and please link me to cars that are running 10's on ACT street discs....
The fact that you can't go faster than a 13.6 on the ACT when others have gone faster on the same clutch and the stock one can't all be ACT's fault.
And who said anything about cars with a ACT street disc running 10's. No where in my post did I mention anything about what disc the car or cars used to go 10's. Maybe your reading and comprehension skills are as good as your driving. Or maybe you should stick to rowing boats since you mentioned you were good at that.
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There are lots of threads about a lot of things on here. Some good about ACT some bad. The fact is that most people don't create threads about things that work like they are supposed to. I've also never met anyone with a performance car that didn't think they were the next Schumacher or John Force behind the wheel.
The fact that you can't go faster than a 13.6 on the ACT when others have gone faster on the same clutch and the stock one can't all be ACT's fault.
And who said anything about cars with a ACT street disc running 10's. No where in my post did I mention anything about what disc the car or cars used to go 10's. Maybe your reading and comprehension skills are as good as your driving. Or maybe you should stick to rowing boats since you mentioned you were good at that.
The fact that you can't go faster than a 13.6 on the ACT when others have gone faster on the same clutch and the stock one can't all be ACT's fault.
And who said anything about cars with a ACT street disc running 10's. No where in my post did I mention anything about what disc the car or cars used to go 10's. Maybe your reading and comprehension skills are as good as your driving. Or maybe you should stick to rowing boats since you mentioned you were good at that.
Anyhow, just to humor the "all knowing" internet, i decided to adjust my clutch, YET AGAIN today. I've been messing with AWD 4G63's for over 10 years now, but what the hell do i know, im not the all inclusive internet forums.
This is my set up; ACT street disc with fidanza flywheel & SS clutch line
I adjusted it out as far as i could using the method outlined by jack's transmissions. The clutch was still warm from the drive to my shop so i decided to see how it faired against a little launch. I pushed the clutch down completely and revved the engine up to 5500 and the car began to creep forward very slowly.
So there we have it folks, adjusting it didnt do a single thing.
now what? my flywheel wasnt resurfaced correctly? (its new) my install was done improperly? i got a faulty "fill in the blank"?
I'm tempted to go with an ACT sprung 6 puck just for giggles, since they dont react to heat like the street disc does, but i'd hate to drop the time and money on it and have it not work well either.
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I ran my car at the track last night and was having problems with my ACT Clutch shifting fast. I make enough power to run 10's but just wont happen... I have a TRE trans, New Fluid, Adjusted clutch.. It seems as the clutch gets hotter it get more lock out.. My trans never grinds it just locks out at above 7500 rpms. Im going to put in a Quarter Master soon..
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