clutch ate itself (pics)

[tallkid123]

On my way home from a 120 mile round trip I lost my clutch (which I purchased brand new less than 5k miles ago). Pedal went to the floor and lost pressure. It came back up but you could tell the pedal was doing nothing. I drove it home with no clutch (used starter motor to get going at lights, rev matched shifts) and pulled it out the next day to find this; the friction material was stuck in the pressure plate fingers, so they were stuck "in" yet the clutch was still engaged:

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this is my garage, and the new clutch installed:
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my car only makes 350ish rwhp, went with a clutch rated at 600 this time around

[Erik@R/TTuning]

Wow, what kind of clutch was it?

[willthethrill]

man the only thing probably worse than the hand grenade clutch is replacing it in the snow.

[tallkid123]

It was an Advance Auto "Perfection" clutch, a child company of Zoom

It seems their quality control is now crap, a few other people have now had them fail in the exact same way recently along with a few slave cylinders that leak brand new

[Willdue]

It was an Advance Auto "Perfection" clutch, a child company of Zoom



theres the issue.

[PSUe36]

That clutch looks like it has definitely seen better days

[ourbloodykisses]

holy hell

[tallkid123]

theres the issue.

apparently they used to be a decent company

..when I pulled it out and showed my dad he pointed at the "made in china" stamp and said "well there's your real problem"

[OutToWinPAHC]

I wish my T56 came out that easy

[Erik@R/TTuning]

:(

Yeah, they are known to be pretty crappy. Sorry you had to learn the hard way.

[DPancoast]

aw man that sucks.

I had a perfection clutch in my n/a mr2 a while back. always worked good for me. god knows how the car is doing now

[tallkid123]

oh well, it all worked out. this car was originally an automatic and I converted it to a 6 speed, only thing I didn't go big on was the clutch (had the transmission rebuilt/upgraded, upgraded master cylinder, decent shifter etc.) so it gave me an excuse to upgrade it. and I caught a sale when it failed so I got about $75 off on the clutch I had wanted in the first place

[XxIriponzeesxX]

i had the same thing happen to my clutch, i was ripping around and then i felt the clutch give out. i drove it around till i couldnt stand the chattering lol

[01 Trans-Am WS6]

I bought a Zoom Perfection clutch for my 3000GT years back...was a big piece of crap, first one fried after 2 weeks of normal driving. Was replaced again and car was never the same. Wouldent chirp gears, always sounded like the clutch was slipping.

Whatever you do also dont buy a Spec brand clutch for T56...I bought one for my WS6 and had tons of issues after 3 months of driving.

[tallkid123]

hahah yeah I've heard nothing but horror stories about Spec units, mostly chatter and disengagement issues

I'm running a Diamond Stage 2 now (rated at 600hp), made by TDP and from what I know it was developed with the owner of Monster before the guys split ways. You'll notice by looking at pics that their stages 1-3 look 100% identical apart from the colors they're painted, which I'm sure is no coincidence. I'm also running a Tick (tilton) master cylinder. This clutch grabs HARD when you disengage it quickly and the tick master is sweet. I can slam gears like nobody's business now. I'm just concerned about the 10 bolt at this point hahah, the shock is a lot worse with this clutch on shifts and launches, but it drives extremely smoothly around town.

[PunkboySL2]

Well I'm definitely glad I bought an ACT for my car and not a zoom or any of those other cheap clutches.