Clutch Size

[Chickenman]

Any competent Machine shop that services Trucks, or Farm equipment can surface grind a flywheel or turn it on a big Lathe. Doesn't have to be an Automotive shop.

[Gary L]

But if I purchased a complete kit which also includes an OE flywheel such as the Exedy in the following link, would it matter what's in there now? What else would be different between the smaller and larger clutche?. The bell housing, starter, fork, etc, would all be the same, wouldn't they?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EXEDY-CLUTCH-KIT-OEM-FLYWHEEL-1975-1983-NISSAN-280Z-280ZX-2-2-NON-TURBO-/162095378181?fits=Make%3ANissan|Submodel%3A2%2B2&vxp=mtr&hash=item25bda32f05

And $191 with free shipping from the Gripforce Store seems like a good price for a complete kit

 

 

[siteunseen]

As long as the flywheels friction surface matches the friction surface on the pressure plate, and I'm sure they will if you buy it as a kit, it would be fine. A lot of people prefer the larger friction disc the 240mm provides. More grip for launching off. 

I'm 99.9 percent sure the turbo has the 240mm just like the 2+2. Maybe a typo in their description?

[Captain Obvious]

siteunseen, You're running a lightweight flywheel in one of your cars, right?

What's the detail with that? What brand, etc?

[siteunseen]

Any parts store should have the Felpro rear seal on hand but you should check, they may have to overnight it from a Hub store. If you want the Nissan seal I have the part number at home. I think it was $15.

[siteunseen]

2 hours ago, Captain Obvious said:

siteunseen, You're running a lightweight flywheel in one of your cars, right?

What's the detail with that? What brand, etc?

It's a Tilton 225mm and I absolutely love it! It weighs a little under 10lbs and shoots up like a drill. Seriously, 2,000 to 5,000 in a heartbeat. I'm getting a workout shifting so much.

The other day when I took a group picture in my yard lining it up was a bitch. I kept stalling the motor out trying not to tear up my grass.

Thanks to @LeonV I didn't need a high dollar Center Force. The $100 Exedy works great.

 

Edited July 29, 2016 by siteunseen
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[LeonV]

2 hours ago, siteunseen said:

It's a Tilton 225mm and I absolutely love it! It weighs a little under 10lbs and shoots up like a drill. Seriously, 2,000 to 5,000 in a heartbeat. I'm getting a workout shifting so much.

The other day when I took a group picture in my yard lining it up was a bitch. I kept stalling the motor out trying not to tear up my grass.

Thanks to @LeonV I didn't need a high dollar Center Force. The $100 Exedy works great.

Absolutely. If you're not making way more power than stock, there is no need to spend 4-5x over a perfectly good stock clutch.

[Zed Head]

22 hours ago, Gary L said:

I drive pretty conservative these days so I don't need a heavy duty racing clutch.

This is actually an opportunity to improve what you have.  Or you can just try to get it back to what it was before it started chattering.  But there are definitely ways to make things worse even with new parts.  Pedal force required can increase with a low-tolerance low cost pressure plate, for example.

Those cheap eBay parts are just people with offshore manufacturing connections, bringing parts over, and/or distributors for all of the other brands.   Typically they just reverse engineer what's out there, have it made overseas, and give it a their name.  They're just a distributor; databases, computers, and shipping is what they do.  Better to get an established brand, I think.  Some of these are old but one is from 2012, and the yelps are very recent.  

http://gripforce.com/

http://www.thirdgen.org/forums/aftermarket-vendor-review/647885-gripforce-f1-racing-clutches.html

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1106051

http://www.yelp.com/biz/gripforce-brea

[Gary L]

Thanks Zed Head, Interesting readings and reviews on Gripforce. The kit I was looking at from them was the Exedy. Earlier in this post Siteunseen said he liked his Exedy. I'd rather not spend $400 to $500 on a kit, but what brand would you suggest? Black Dragon sells one for around $170, but like so many of their other parts, they don't list a brand. Over the years I've ordered lots of parts from The Z Store and Z Car Source so I guess I'll look through their kits again.

[siteunseen]

You can get Nissan still.  $200 or so.

[Captain Obvious]

Site, Thanks for the info.

So when you put his 10 lb flywheel in, did you put in a light pressure plate as well, or did you go stock weight there?

[siteunseen]

10 hours ago, Captain Obvious said:

Site, Thanks for the info.

So when you put his 10 lb flywheel in, did you put in a light pressure plate as well, or did you go stock weight there?