I've been told they last shorter lives and are just meant for uprated
engines that put out more and popping the clutch and hard use. Depends on
what your going to be doing I guess...
Geoff
This one time, at band camp, James Nazarian Jr wrote:
> Now that I am consistantly able to post to the list, I will go back to the
> question I had when this all started. As some of you may remember, my
> roller TO bearing is mostly dead in my roadster. While I am in there I am
> doing the whole clutch plus the rear main, etc. My question is, how
> necessary is the heavy duty clutch. I drive fast, but I don't dump the
> clutch. A lot of accelerating and decelerating (fast) similar to
> autocross. I do autocross sometimes, but not enough to warrant anything
> special for it. My engine is stock but may get a 3/4 race cam and related
> gear later, but that will be post V8BGT completion. I have been really
> pleased with my clutch's performance in the 5 years the car has been a
> daily driver, and ultimately it was the TO bearing that my dad and I put
> in when I was 7 (I'm 21 now, if you've forgotten) that died. So waddaya
> think? Are the HD clutch parts worth 2x the cost? Without having seen
> the condition of the disk yet I can't say if it was about to die, but if I
> do use HD parts, will they last more miles for the same type of driving,
> or are they just more resistant to dumping the clutch and bigger horse
> power engines?
>
> James Nazarian
> '71 B roadster
> '71 BGT rust free and burnt orange
> '63 Buick 215
>
> "Aerodynamics are for people who cannot build engines"
> Enzo Ferrari
>
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