I’ve been trying to mentally “zoom out” and think about some of the car stuff I’ve learned over the years that isn’t always common knowledge, and make vids on it when I can. There will be more like this from time to time 👍🏻
When the opportunity arises, yes. I enjoy making this sort of content, although so far it doesn't typically perform as well as my sim content does. I have a clutches explained video that I released recently, and a transmission rebuild video as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t_xzGz4xlzU.html If you like watching less polished garage work that feels more vloggy, I keep a playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLJ04c5yCpKGphPiIJH16qqRtbugHJx02b
If you bought one that had a racing clutch in it then yeah, you can absolutely take the transmission out and swap in a normal clutch again. If you don’t have the experience or tools to do it, plenty of tuning shops can do the job👍🏻
The clutch won’t mind it! The driving experience will be a little more clunky when taking off from first gear, but honestly my car feels fine even with a lightweight flywheel. You can’t be lazy with the pedal work though-like you don’t have to be great, but you have to pay attention to keep it smooth each shift. Stock gear you can do it with your eyes closed yanno
In a budget diesel drift car, 240 Hp and 500-550 nm, should I install a new oem or race clutch, bmw 325tds, evry mod, new exhaust + downpibe and boost controller
We have a number of BMW drivers in the discord that would enjoy talking shop specifically about the chassis so you might give them a try: discord.gg/ewCbs8T My personal recommendation depends on what you plan to do with the car? Daily driver? Track only and trailer it to the track, or somewhere in between?
@@KameTrick a track car I use for driving to the track, on the track and an occasional joy ride on the road :) but sounds like a great idea I'm definitely gonna do that. I would like to keep the clutch stuck if it can handle the 500-550 nm, bought the car standard with a slippin clutch, so I need to swap anyways now I'm and a bit afraid that putting a stock clutch in will have me swapping clutch soon again 😊
@@nicolajskovby6204 ah I see! Each stock clutch has its own torque holding limits, which I’m not familiar with many besides cars I own😅 But if you don’t plan to do drag launches or clutch kicks much a stock one may be fine unless you just make more power than the stock one can hold💪🏻
I would think so, since more force is applied to the material due to its smaller surface area. That said, the difference in life may turn out to be negligible...I think clutches are one of those things that outlast most things around them unless they have a catastrophic failure. If you have to do a transmission rebuild--like me for example--you'll probably put in a new clutch while you have easy access, so it wearing out from natural causes may never matter.
Thanks! No clutch has synchros, those are actually located on the gears of the transmission itself. Transmissions have had synchros for a long time now, commonly since around 1960, and the first use of synchros on a production car was around 1930.
Hello. I installed a stage 3 clutch in my civic. Definitely hard to daily but didnt think it will be that bad. Starting off in st is very very harsh. Do i slip it longer or the opposite?
I had a race clutch in my old civic. I’d slip it longer, but in mine the trade off was either launch harshly and quickly, or-if I slipped it longer-the car sort of shuddered during the time that the clutch was slipping, but the launch itself would be smoother
Not a great explanation. They are called Paddles, not pucks, and as for the lightened and balanced flywheel, the idea is to accelerate quicker as the engine has less force to deal with, (never use one as a daily driver as it will damage your engine on a long journey because your engine needs inertia) the springs on the clutch 'friction plate' are there to minimise the force on the drive train, giving you less chance of breaking something and giving a smoother bite, like a normal daily driver clutch.
Thanks for the info, Steve! I’ve learned all I know from the people who came before me and try to present good info as best an honestly as I can, but it sounds like I could have done a better job with this one. I’m not as worried about using the exact correct term, but your comment reveals that I could have been more accurate with some things. Thanks for taking the time to watch and share your insights 🙏🏻
while the lighter flywheel may give you some marginally better acceleration that may count for a racecar the quick reving and lower revhang makes sense because it allows you to revmatch much quicker and will have a much higher impact than a few horsepower released. But you could simply change gears without waiting for the rematch to happen even power shift but the wear on every driveline is accelerated significantly
Hi sir, I got Impreza sti 2007 changed to Race clutch kit and new flywheel yesterday I got juddering in first and reverse gear especially while I’m turning or parking the car Does it needs to bed in or the race clutch is not suitable to my car?thanks
