your budget is whats limiting everything really. based on it. you will go over it even getting basic stuff. the clutch install labor is pretty high. i dont know how your driving to burn thru clutches so fast. im on stock clutch at 62k miles. seriously, if someone can explain how you can burn up a clutch on normal driving with not much hp, let me know. pm's welcomed
I was under the impression and thru a lot of reading and experience that its the slipping of the clutch and over powering that made it wear.

if i were you, i'd get stock clutch (cheap), and just look in the suspension fs forum for some used stuff since the bilsteins are on backorder.
https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sa...in-shocks.html

 

Pro tip. Before you do anything with your clutch. Read through the modifications regrets thread. Every 3rd post is about how someone hates their clutch.

I would be HIGHLY suspect of your driving style if you're wearing clutches that fast. Someone who rides the clutch, or operates the system poorly (no offense) will wear through ANY clutch faster. Regardless of how "tough" it is.

As for a flywheel. No.

I have these questions to ask you, and you should probably ask them honestly of yourself as well.

1. What is the purpose of your car?
2. What HP is your car making?
3. Have you had it tuned?
4. Are you POSITIVE that you're operating your clutch properly?

Everyones opinions/preferences are of course different. But I would be on the stock clutch as long as it was able to hold the power I'm putting down.

MANY PEOPLE assume that when their clutch starts slipping, it is because it cannot hold the power they're putting down, when in fact the clutch has just worn out.

As for suspension, lets not forget that this car ran a cold 8:11 around Nurburgring. That isn't to say that it can't be improved, but that was a STOCK JDM 9MR. When you can run those times in the stock 9MR, then upgrade your suspension. :P

 

I hate you, ProPilot, and all your undeniable logic! Lol.

Just for sake of conversation. What would be proper way to operate these clutches? Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I'm always open to learn something.

 

lol! I just meant that so many people learn to drive from person x, or whatever... but how do you know that what they're doing is right?

Example... how many dudes went ahead and searched "why should I be double clutching" after the fast and the furious came out?

In short, I wouldn't call myself an expert by any means. I fly airplanes, and they... for the purposes here, are largely absent of clutches.

Some general tips though so that I didn't just waste 3 minutes of your life...

1. Don't "ride the clutch". This is resting your foot on the pedal. Unless you are actuating the clutch... your foot should be off the pedal. This of course will cause excess wear, because you're preventing the clutch from fully engaging through a hydraulic advantage.

2. The clutch is a pedal. Not a button, and you're a human, not a machine. So use the clutch like a pedal, and use your brain. Feel the engagement, and work with it, not against it.

3. If you're unable to be completely stopped, and put your car into 1st gear, or reverse without using the gas pedal... at all. ever. Until it is rolling and your feet are completely off of any pedal, then you could probably use some practice.

When I'm teaching people to drive stick in a modern car, the biggest thing that throws them is that they try to match the revs from one gear to the other. Which you SHOULD do. But they're so obsessed with this, that they end up revving the engine way too much in between gears. If you're shifting at good shift points (for regular driving) the gear ratios will work out so that the revs will match on their own. As you drive, and learn, you'll learn through sound/feel/etc. how much revving is required to match at which gear change and at which RPM.

But just to be clear... I'm no different than any of you. I'm just a guy trying to share some experiences.

 

I got my Bilsteins amazingly quick from eshocks. Looks like their price went up a bit there unfortunately, but still decent. Been very happy with mine.