Originally Posted by
StreetHazard
iv got an embarassing about this very topic
I had a clutch that was burnt to shit, I knew it was almost gone so I had already ordered a new stage 1 exedy and flywheel off the internet.
but I still HAD to drive my car to and from work all week to to install it on a saturday. And this clutch was really really messed up, like the RPM's were at like 5,000 just to move the car forward.
So I was on GA-400 doing about 70 mph and that clutch went. like a friggin grenade that clutch went! it shook the whole car like I just drove over a fuggin landmine or something. So needless to say I call a towtruck to take it too the honda dealership (my friend is a tech there) he drives me to pick up my new parts. And we proceed to unbolt the tranny.... AND OMFG the pressure plate was shattered like a burnt pancake slammed on a kitchen floor!
and (some of the pieces) actually sliced through the transmission housing and ended up inside the starter and destroying it as well!
every mechanic in that place had to come over and inspect the damage in awe
all I kept hearing is "your a lucky man" , "you could have died" "there are plenty of stories of drag racers losing ATLEAST their feet in grenading cluches like this"
apparently the material that makes a clutch and its pressure plate is ALOT stonger than the tranny housing it sits in....SO if your RPMs are say....6000 rpms and the clutch goes. its red hot and will slice through a transmission housing like a hot knife through butter. and the force is so violent that even your firewall will offer little protection from those hot shards of steel depending on how its rotating when it decides to explode.
the moral of the story is REPLACE YOUR CLUTCH asap! dont be like me
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