who still is on their stock clutch?
stock clutch 49k miles - still grabs the same as the day I bought it. Have all bolt-ons minus cams w/ e85, I often wonder how much longer it can last because e85 was the biggest butt dyno jump I have felt ever - so far though its been fine.
Mine was gone after a long night of drag racing with 13k miles on it. I didn't let the clutch cool off enough in between passes and had only had the car about 3 weeks, so I was still in a learning curve from my DSM days with an ACT 2600.
My Evo 8 has 76k on it and is running a stock clutch currently and it grabs like new. Had a fully built 2.3 stroker and bigger turbo build done at 41k and on low boost (21psi) it was tuned to about 400whp for daily driving. I never launch it, but I do do some spirited canyon road driving and track work; clutch works great.
A good friend of mine put cams tune and exhaust on his Evo (290ishwhp) right after break in and that car has seen at several track days (road course) and is still running the original clutch at 60k which bites just like it did when it was new. He doesn't launch it either
The Evo's stock clutch is really stong for an OEM piece, but it has to be used the way the car was meant to be used, as a track car/canyon carver not a drag racer.
On the other hand, another friend was heavily into the street racing scene back when we were young and stupid and he went through 2 stock clutches and 4 various uprated aftermarket pieces both single and dual disk with his 330whp Evo. Fortunately he had a sponsor paying for those clutches or he would have been out 10k+
The moral of the story is:
If you start doing high rev clutch dropping/slipping you will burn though clutches, trannys, transfer cases, diffs in no time.
If you don't send shocks through the drivetrain, your Evo won't shock you back
A good friend of mine put cams tune and exhaust on his Evo (290ishwhp) right after break in and that car has seen at several track days (road course) and is still running the original clutch at 60k which bites just like it did when it was new. He doesn't launch it either
The Evo's stock clutch is really stong for an OEM piece, but it has to be used the way the car was meant to be used, as a track car/canyon carver not a drag racer.
On the other hand, another friend was heavily into the street racing scene back when we were young and stupid and he went through 2 stock clutches and 4 various uprated aftermarket pieces both single and dual disk with his 330whp Evo. Fortunately he had a sponsor paying for those clutches or he would have been out 10k+
The moral of the story is:
If you start doing high rev clutch dropping/slipping you will burn though clutches, trannys, transfer cases, diffs in no time.
If you don't send shocks through the drivetrain, your Evo won't shock you back
Last edited by ktk; Nov 26, 2008 at 03:11 PM.
Stock clutch, 41K. No launches. My DSM on the other hand gets a new clutch every year, or 5000 miles, or every 2 dozen passes, or every oil change, whichever comes first...........or every bird migration, or every other full moon......
50k and I think I'm just now going to need a new clutch.. Its all driving style, I drive my car aggressively, but I don't slip the clutch.
over 15k of it on a GT35r, HKS280 cams, etc.. and 40k of the total mileage the car has been pretty modified.
over 15k of it on a GT35r, HKS280 cams, etc.. and 40k of the total mileage the car has been pretty modified.
