[Shotimes] Intro New guy New SHO

[Carl Prochilo]

Joe,  I'm not a mechanical engineer, but it is my understanding that all
racing clutches are a puck design.  The term puck only applies to the clutch
disk.  You can see pictures of the new clutch here.

http://tinyurl.com/2frry

There is at least one good picture that shows the pucks.  The theory is that
the clutch generates a lot of heat, and pucks allow for greater heat
dissipation.  They also do a better job of grabbing the flywheel and
pressure plate.

When I said that the clutch disk has 9 pucks, I wasn't suggesting that more
is better.  In fact, I've seen some of the clutch disks from other sources
that are truly setup for racing and they only have 4 big pucks.  But that
design also produces a lot of chatter when getting the car started.  The 9
smaller pucks presumably give a streetable application but still have better
grabbing over the stock disk which for all intents and purposes is uniform
all the way around.
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Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
1992 Ultra Red Crimson

van Oss said:
> Carl, what is a "puck" in a clutch disk?  Is 9 a different number of pucks
> from the stock plate?  Is that a good thing?  Why is more pucks better?
>
> Joseph
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> I recently bought a clutch from shonutperformance.com.  Heavy duty PP,
> 9-puck disk and ceramic TOB.