new high horse power cars

[gdaddy01]

how do you run a scatter shield on a new car , with the bell housing made to the transmission ? any report on clutches coming apart ?

[cjshaker]

You can easily find scattered clutch videos on YouTube from idiots that THINK they're doing a burnout, when they're actually smoking the clutch. As far as the built in bellhousing....a safety blanket is the only way to go.

[Heo]

For a while i worked extra at nights at the lokal Ford dealer
as a body man. When i came in to the shop one night there
was a discusting smell. on one of the lifts there was a new
Ford Mondeo i think it was. With the gearbox down on the floor
the smell was coming from there so i walked over.
The flywheel was black and blue the pressure plate was in 3 pieces
the bellhousing whats left of it looked like rats had nested there
worst clutch burnout ever
There was a man 92 years old that bought it new came back after
100 miles and said the gearbox went kaboom and  would not drive any more
When they smelled it they knew he had adjusted the speed with the clutch

[chilly460]

That's a good question, I know it took me a bit to work up winging my '13 GT to 7k.  Guys tune them and turn them more all the time, pretty scary when you start thinking it's done with stock flywheels and clutches. 

[cjshaker]

Stock flywheels and clutches aren't what they used to be. They seem to hold up real well with all the abuse they take in these cars. It's just the idiots who don't know how to drive a performance car that seem to be able to destroy them.

[Katz427]

That story about the 92 year old made me grin. My grandfather always drove that way, he learned to drive on a Model T. He always had his foot on the clutch, riding the clutch and feathering the throttle to get the desired speed. My father always marveled how he never had a clutch replaced in over 80k miles in the 1960 Fairlane.