75-76 Aluminum 833 4 speed Overdrive trans questions ?
Curious as well, what is considered a 'junk' clutch?
All those dual friction, ceramic and whatever gimmick they use to make the clutch not slip.
There are two cutch discs to use. An organic disc (both sides) with 2400-2800 pounds of plate pressure at the most.
Or you use the sintered iron disc and keep the plate load between 800-1500 pounds, maybe a bit less if the car is light.
The rest of that **** is just that. ****.
A clutch is NOT a toggle switch. But that’s what they are when you use the gimmicks. And that breaks parts.
I took a video of a guys car at a race last year. He is screwed up on virtually everything for a stick car. What he has wrong applies to street/strip cars just like it does a drag car.
He has WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much flywheel weight. By a BUNCH.
He has his traction bars running up hill. That’s a no no, no matter what the internet experts say.
His clutch is either on or off. A toggle switch.
He has a pretty low first gear (overall) which isn’t a bad thing but since he can’t control his clutch he’s screwed.
He has WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much torque for the RPM range he’s trying to run. If he would kill 100 foot pounds of torque below peak he’d be far better off. But he won’t do that because the experts all think torque is god. It’s not.
He probably has some other issues that I’m forgetting now, but it doesn’t matter. I’m not going to publicly post his video because I never told him I was taking it, nor did I have the chance to show it to him and talk to him about WTF he is doing.
The amount of shear violence this guy applies to the tires is staggering.
Between his garbage clutch and his heavy flywheel and all that torque he will never get it right.
Then his buddies who don’t know **** from shinola will convince him to put a leaky, slow assed automatic in it. Then it will go faster than his junked up bullshit he now has because it’s garbage and they will all proclaim the automatic the KING of the world.
If you can run a pop up toaster, you can run an automatic. That about sums that up.
If I had shown the guy the video and told him my thoughts I would have no issues making it public now. Since he didn’t get that opportunity I won’t post it. Yet.
