Hey guys!
Finally wrapped up my car and got everything running great, and got a great tune from 04Sleeper!
My builder brought the car to his track rental, so we ran it a couple of times with great success!
About the 3rd run of the day after around an hour of cool down between each run, I ran the car again and everything seemed to be going great.
Well, upon hitting 4th in this final run, I felt a giant "CLUNK" and the car felt like I bottomed out on a giant rock or something. After this occurred I could no longer get the car to engage in any gear. My first thought was that I did something to the tranny (T-56 Magnum), but everything seemed okay when rowing the shifter.
Fast forward a couple days later when we were able to get the tranny pulled to see what happened, this was the carnage:
We went ahead and sent the clutch to McLeod to get looked at for warranty purposes and they said a $600 rebuild would be in order after saying that the clutch would be replaced if they found the failure was related to the material/workmanship.
My question is, what could have caused this? To me it appears that the floater plate had one/all of the tabs fold under the force, but I don't think this car is making enough power to do this to a clutch that is advertised to withstand 1000+hp.
Before it is asked, the clutch was not a fresh install, but installed prior to the latest rebuild. I did put the recommended 500+ break-in miles on it, and I never had issues with it slipping or chattering whatsoever. Even in tuning (on the street) the clutch felt absolutely great. Also the clutch did have the proper pivot ball length.
If you look at the clutch pads they had PLENTY of life in them prior to those tabs breaking off and bouncing around in the bell housing destroying everything in their path including the bell housing (another 600+ bucks that I'll now be out) as seen in pic 3. Really disappointed in this setup right now as I bought it from Lethal under the impression that it was THE best clutch available for our cars.
On Monday an engineer is supposed to call us and I'll be very interested in what they have to say.
Finally wrapped up my car and got everything running great, and got a great tune from 04Sleeper!
My builder brought the car to his track rental, so we ran it a couple of times with great success!
About the 3rd run of the day after around an hour of cool down between each run, I ran the car again and everything seemed to be going great.
Well, upon hitting 4th in this final run, I felt a giant "CLUNK" and the car felt like I bottomed out on a giant rock or something. After this occurred I could no longer get the car to engage in any gear. My first thought was that I did something to the tranny (T-56 Magnum), but everything seemed okay when rowing the shifter.
Fast forward a couple days later when we were able to get the tranny pulled to see what happened, this was the carnage:
We went ahead and sent the clutch to McLeod to get looked at for warranty purposes and they said a $600 rebuild would be in order after saying that the clutch would be replaced if they found the failure was related to the material/workmanship.
My question is, what could have caused this? To me it appears that the floater plate had one/all of the tabs fold under the force, but I don't think this car is making enough power to do this to a clutch that is advertised to withstand 1000+hp.
Before it is asked, the clutch was not a fresh install, but installed prior to the latest rebuild. I did put the recommended 500+ break-in miles on it, and I never had issues with it slipping or chattering whatsoever. Even in tuning (on the street) the clutch felt absolutely great. Also the clutch did have the proper pivot ball length.
If you look at the clutch pads they had PLENTY of life in them prior to those tabs breaking off and bouncing around in the bell housing destroying everything in their path including the bell housing (another 600+ bucks that I'll now be out) as seen in pic 3. Really disappointed in this setup right now as I bought it from Lethal under the impression that it was THE best clutch available for our cars.
On Monday an engineer is supposed to call us and I'll be very interested in what they have to say.
