OEM disc has exedy stamp on friction material. Yea the aftermarket disc doesn't have a double sprung hub.

ACT Seems okay but I got mine with grease sprayed all over it and chips everywhere from being shipped with just 1 piece of paper in the box, and through crap fedex. Then when I first called to return it to the distributor he tried to tell me to install it anyways and the grease will disappear, wrong move, returned the clutch and never doing business with act again.

Im now working on my own super stock clutch design. My car needs more finesse than the muscle car evos.

 

I doubt you'll be better at designing at clutch and manufacturing it, then ACT would. It seems like you bought the clutch from a junk salesman or some ******** who just sprayed grease all over your clutch before selling it... Exedy does make the stock clutch, but the ACT HD is just a fortified stock clutch.. About twice as strong and definitely better.

 

Sorry for your bad experience. I think I remember that disc coming back actually. If it the same one I am thinking of, the grease-pack we supply was shrunk wrapped too close to the disc and was pierced by the disc shifting and hitting it during shipping. Of course it was promptly replaced or credited to whoever sent it to us. Since it was a first for us, we used it as a training moment for our guys so it hopefully won't happen again (which is why I remember it). I am not sure what you mean by "1 piece of paper in the box" but I don't know how it was shipped to you from the distributor. We shrink wrap the disc to a cardboard piece and then put that in a product box. Besides the grease pack issue, let me know if somehow we could have done better for you.

 

Just an update: my collar..ringy clipy thingie broke into sevral pieces... Thanks to Doug from Doug's Dyno Power here in Las Vegas, I'm up and running again... of course i'm never driving my evo again Dx It's staying parked until issues like this get resolved. Never had a problem "shifting too fast" in my SRT4.

 

No it was the disc falling out of the package and onto the grease pack and just plain getting beat up for the chips from bad packaging, just like he said. there was no cushion for the clutch in the box except for a piece of paper, it got really beat up on the way. Anyways, trying to tell me to use it in that condition was an insult(maybe that works on idiots who pay other people to install their clutches) but I will NEVER do business with a company with such bad ethics.

I also don't need twice as strong because I don't have twice the torque as stock. I also have a messed up left knee, so I don't care for the strong pressure plates, even the stage 1 for street.

 

Sounds like you bought from a bad vendor. ACT seemed prompt to address then issue, so it would be unfair to discredit their services like that. I have the HDSS and I've been really really happy with everything about it. Customer service to performance. Youll be hard pressed to find another company that values CRM (customer relation management) as much as they do the performance of their product.

 

We finally got the press release out. I hope you like it. I see the moderator has posted it here:
https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...-failures.html