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Old 08-10-2015, 02:53 PM   #1
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The clutch and throwout bearing finally gave up in the Cobra a couple weeks or so ago. So I called GTR and they ordered me a McLeod Street Extreme clutch which according to McLeod is good for 700hp/tq. I pulled the trans yesterday and dropped the flywheel off this morning to have it resurfaced.
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Old 08-11-2015, 01:35 AM   #2
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That's a different level of performance, but I went from a McLeodd Street Performance to a Luk Pro Gold and in addition to being about 1/3 the price is way better for smooth engagement and light feel. It grips at least as well, if not better. It's supposedly the ZO6 OEM clutch, so plenty for me.
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Did you have an issue with the McLeod Street slipping?
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Old 08-11-2015, 09:39 AM   #4
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My builder always told me Mcleod were the biggest pieces of shit ever. I have never run one though.
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Well hopefully he's wrong because that's what I'm getting.
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In my research, I have found lots of people recommend the OE/Ford Performance throwout bearing because the ones in most of the kits are not great.
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I think this one was a Duralast one from Autozone that I bought not that long ago. I will probably be getting one from Ford as you suggested.
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Did you have an issue with the McLeod Street slipping?
I burnt it down to nothing in about 12,000 miles. Though to be fair my BHP and its rating were the same 450, so not over spec'd and I had probably 70 passes, and a fair bit of hard driving in those miles. Still, for a street clutch at rating, that's not great, especially for $1k or whatever it was. Definitely prefer my Luk, which is just OE. You may need something well over OE though.
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My old clutch disc is a McLeod and it probably has 40,000 - 50,000 miles on it. I have a Spec stage 3 pressure plate but the Spec stage 2 disc ( it was a stage 2+ package) broke a while ago and I bought the McLeod disc from GTR. It held up fine behind the 302 but the extra 100 lb/ft of torque from the 347 is just too much for it.
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In my research, I have found lots of people recommend the OE/Ford Performance throwout bearing because the ones in most of the kits are not great.
Most of the kit ones make noise, I went with an FRPP one and have no noise this time around.
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