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Old Nov 11, 2005 | 06:22 PM
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Question RPS vs TILTON C/C

Which clutch is better for 600whp evo?
And how much for disks when rebuild it?
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Old Nov 11, 2005 | 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Yaroslav
Which clutch is better for 600whp evo?
And how much for disks when rebuild it?
Thanks
If you want to talk to the top dog clutch manufacturer's, you'll need to be talking torque instead of horsepower.

But either the Tilton or the RPS carbon versions will most likely hold anything you can produce. I'm not up to speed on the Tilton policies, but with RPS, once you buy the original carbon/carbon unit, you'll never pay for replacement parts, ever. All wear surfaces, including the flywheel inserts, the discs and the pressure plate inserts will be replace free of charge. RPS customer service is second to none.
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Old Nov 11, 2005 | 09:24 PM
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wow i didnt know that about RPS...thats kind of a sick deal. there has to be catch....is there?
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Old Nov 11, 2005 | 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by dubbleugly01
If you want to talk to the top dog clutch manufacturer's, you'll need to be talking torque instead of horsepower.

But either the Tilton or the RPS carbon versions will most likely hold anything you can produce. I'm not up to speed on the Tilton policies, but with RPS, once you buy the original carbon/carbon unit, you'll never pay for replacement parts, ever. All wear surfaces, including the flywheel inserts, the discs and the pressure plate inserts will be replace free of charge. RPS customer service is second to none.
I don't know where you got your information from ,but RPS does charges $400.00-$500.00. Trust me i know as i personally installed 2 of these.
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Old Nov 11, 2005 | 09:35 PM
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tilton all day i have one sitting here at home but way to agresive for my setup right now. but hands down it dont get better then them something breaks they will replace for free depending what it is if not they will send a new part for real cheap.
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Old Nov 11, 2005 | 09:50 PM
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Your evo is sexy, can I have it?
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Old Nov 11, 2005 | 10:15 PM
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The RPS is an okay clutch. With heavy abuse they fail. The RPS discs are no where near as light as the tilton dics. The tilton shifts crazy good. The tilton is a far better design but it cost more. The RPS is cheap to rebuild, the tilton is not.
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Old Nov 11, 2005 | 10:42 PM
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If you want the best clutch then you want Tilton.
Tilton makes race clutches not clutches that sound cool so you buy them.

btw a twin disk Tilton clutch lists out at around $4000.
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Old Nov 12, 2005 | 12:25 AM
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my friend bought RPS 2disk C/C and killed it after 1000miles! Less that 1 month
His evo is absolutely STOCK!!!!!!!!! Its crazy!
I have 700+hp and killed RPS after 1000miles too!
After all RPS said its my fault!!! I have a DRAG VERSION

That is why i asked about TILTON....dont want the same situation as with RPS
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Old Nov 12, 2005 | 01:11 AM
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holy jezus how many launches did you do in that 1000 miles

Thats some hardcore clutch abuse to burn out a C/C that fast.
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Old Nov 12, 2005 | 04:12 AM
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Originally Posted by timzcat
If you want the best clutch then you want Tilton.
Tilton makes race clutches not clutches that sound cool so you buy them.

btw a twin disk Tilton clutch lists out at around $4000.

The twin disk carbon is about $3500 and the twin cerametallic is about about $1600 and good for 600ft/lbs. The carbon is good to 800ft/lb, way more then enough to bust ANYTHING in your drive train I talked to tilton tech a few weeks ago and to rebuild a cerametallic it was about $250 and the carbon was $450. Their tech was VERY HELPFUL and easy to get ahold of.

I have a friend running the tilton carbon/carbon twin in a 850 hp 835 tq at the crank Porsche GT-2 track car and so far his clutch has held up all season. He has a TT 3.6 making stupid power (and cost him $91k) and the clutch has held it so, if it can take that it can take our wimpy azz 2.0 L tq.


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Old Nov 12, 2005 | 04:28 AM
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Do you know what the pedal pressure/feel is with the Tilton c/c for the Evo8? I felt one in an is300 over at Toyomoto and damn near push my foot through the floor because it was so light and could hold 800ft/lbs+.
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Old Nov 12, 2005 | 04:33 AM
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Originally Posted by xenoturkey
holy jezus how many launches did you do in that 1000 miles

Thats some hardcore clutch abuse to burn out a C/C that fast.
May be 100 launches
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Old Nov 12, 2005 | 04:36 AM
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Can i buy disks separatly and not send to rebuild?
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Old Nov 12, 2005 | 05:37 AM
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Yes, they said they will send you whatever parts you need. Like I said, I was very impressed with how helpfull they were.
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