67 Barracuda Formula S 451 - clutch shatter

What did the surfaces of the pressure plate and flywheel look like when you had it apart. I've had my share of clutch chatter problems over the years. It is frustrating.

A broken drivers side motor mount will induce chatter, but I read you have a torque strap installed. Can you tighten that so that there is no play in it and it completely stops the driver's side of the engine from lifting up at all? That could eliminate any up and down movement of the engine as the clutch is let out.

I've also had bad pressure plates that show three or more hot spots where it is not evenly applying pressure to the entire clutch surface, and that induced chatter. You did change that out too I believe, and it altered the dynamic of your chatter. Is that correct?

Another time, I had a bad Marcel spring which is a wave style spring located between the two faces of the clutch disk was flat. It compresses when clamped between the pressure plate and the flywheel.

As mentioned above, a heat damaged flywheel can have both soft and hard areas that have different coefficients of friction can induce it too.

The surface of the clutch looked a bit burned at some spots and not 100% good - like some clutch friction material sticks out at some points - the pressure plate had some colored areas from heat. It was a brand new Centerforce clutch and we did not abuse it. But I think the chatter has put some stress at it.

The torque strap is very tight - but anyhow on the one video where you see the engine from below while being on the dyno, looks still to move as I just noticed.
So we´ll check the passenger side engine mount as well to minimize engine movement.

When we have changed the clutch, we also changed the pressure plate. The dynamic of the chatter has changed - lot less - but still there.