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tilton, or other jim-crack clutches

To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: tilton, or other jim-crack clutches
From: Editorgary@aol.com
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:56:46 EST
In a message dated 3/27/05 6:25:37 PM, owner-fot-digest@autox.team.net 
writes:


> 
> BOB KRAMER <rkramer3@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Do any USA suppliers sell the fancy, lightweight billet steel
> flywheel/Tilton race clutch setups ?
> 
Can't speak for Triumphs, but after four years of fighting it (clutch 
slipping, engagement too quick for paddock and trailer loading, very thin 
clutch 
plate, linkage difficult to get positioned properly, etec. etc.), I pulled the 
Tilton clutch and lightweight flywheel off my MGA and installed a standard 
Moss-sourced MGB clutch. Made the decision when I asked a five-time SCCA 
national 
champion what he was running on his MGA. His thought is that if you get too 
light on our less than precise engines--especially the three-main MGA engine, 
you 
take away some of the mass that helps keep the engine running smoothly -- 
which is, of course, why there is a flywheel there in the first place. Don't 
know 
how much of that translates across to Triumphs, but that is one decidely 
non-vintage upgrade that may not be the best thing for an ancient 
"agricultural" 
(that's an adjective, not a Ferguson fact, folks) engine.
Cheers
Gary

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