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bad luck! tell me about it!

you and me both have had a bit of a bad run of late..

hopefully we're through it now! but having r32 gtrs i dont think it will ever end!

all i need now is to get some new coils and she should be sorted..

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Cool, same as what i think, i've been a bit hesitent to say i liked the clutch because i liked the twin plate when i put that in there at first, but then it ended up being a pig. This clutch (JB) is nothing like that.

As for old fuel, yeah i normally just don't go full throttle, its not bad for the engine or anything but probably lost a bit of its octane rating as you said.

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How long did the clutch take to get back to you Lucien? Im doing this (maybe) as well but concerned about leaving the car sitting around a workshop for weeks until the clutch gets back...

Hey sewid,

IIRC, it was out on a Monday and I express posted it up to Jim that day. If not for a delivery problem, it would have been back by Thursday, so really quick basically :(

FAT32: My thoughts stay the same, mainly because I haven't driven the car much. I have three more weeks till my honours thesis is due, so its all study study study at the moment :P The car is pushing stock GT-R power, but I'll be fixing that soon and let you know :)

Edit: Whoops: its a single plate "stage one", which is essentially an uprated pressure plate and new material on the stock clutch. Given that twoogle is pushing stupidly high power through a single plate Jim Berry (the next one up I think -- I guess it would be "stage two"), I see no reason to waste money on fancy Japanese multiplate clutches.

Firstly lw, go drive your car. These should be no excuse for not driving a Skyline ( unless you actually can't ). :huh:

Just another question. How heavy is the pedal with these JB clutches ?? Most of the heavy duty clutches around are more like a switch and cause the clutch pedal box spot welds to break.

How heavy is the pedal with these JB clutches ?? Most of the heavy duty clutches around are more like a switch and cause the clutch pedal box spot welds to break.

Its tough to give you a definite answer since my OEM clutch was basically failing and not engaging/disenaging properly, so driving it normally was out of the question. As I think I said in my post of initial impressions, the JB clutch felt ever so slightly heavier but when it hooked up grabbed a lot harder: how much of that is placebo and how much is actually the case its hard to say :P I certainly don't have any problems using it: in fact one of my main criteria was that it had to be useable since I drive in traffic a lot and want something I can modulate and use without tree-trunk legs.

Sounds about right then :P I just got off the phone with JB and he's confused me even further by giving me a world of options ( including the overhaul and modification / improvement of my OS Twin ).

Sooo confused now :P

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