Anyone else have vibration problems with Spec clutches?

99FiveOh

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I've had my car for a week now and since I got it there's been a RPM related vibration that comes on at around 4500 and gets worse as the revs climb. It sucks because I can't really enjoy any WOT blasts yet! Anyway, I was googling up on what the cause could be and discovered a lot of complaints regarding Spec clutches causing vibrations. I didn't have the car before the clutch was replaced so I can't comment on how it felt before but I did take a peak through the clutch fork cover and saw a brand new Spec clutch. Not sure what stage it is but it looks like the stage 2 pics.

Either way it's back at the Ford dealership where I bought it and they are taking care of it but I'm still wondering what it could be. Apparently they are going to swap in a new OEM clutch and flywheel and hope that cures it. The engine runs so smooth at idle you can't even tell it's running! The car has 83k miles btw.
 

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I have a spec stage 3 in my car. I haven't had any vibrations from it that are bad enough to mention. It is really hard to press in and releases extremely close to the floor which I don't like because it feels like I'm dumping the clutch every time.
 

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vibration isn't normal for mine. smooth here.
stage 3 plus. The "plus" is very important! From my understanding the others are like described. This one is the exception, it drives great. Very much like a stock clutch. I never have chatter and it's not any harder to press or noticeably harder to press than stock.
I have 8K miles on it with every kind of driving and its never given me a single issue and drives like it did 5 years ago.
i have 700 rwhp and 645 rwtq with no slipping at all or in this case vibrations
 
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I have a spec stage 3 in my car. I haven't had any vibrations from it that are bad enough to mention. It is really hard to press in and releases extremely close to the floor which I don't like because it feels like I'm dumping the clutch every time.

A firewall adjuster will solve that, not sure if you have one.
 

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Just to update. The dealership swapped in a new oem clutch and flywheel and all is well now.
 

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