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changaroo
06-07-2011, 09:00 PM
Hey guys,

I live down south, where its reaching temps around 90F-100F. I've noticed once the car gets up to temp, the clutch will start slipping under load. Under normal driving conditions, its fine.

I'm running the oem clutch/pp/flywheel setup (~15k miles on it at most), on a J35 stroker.

During the colder months, I did not experience any of this. I dont think it is the rear main seal leaking because theres only about 2k miles on the block. Is anyone else experiencing this?

I haven't removed the check valve from the slave cylinder, but I'm not sure if that would have a big impact on this.

I'm stuck between getting a p2r clutch disk, but I'm afraid that that oem pressure plate wont provide enough clamping force.

Any suggestions? I've looked into running a k-series flywheel, but there isnt really enough documentation to where I am comfortable enough to shim out the clutch / replace the starter gear.

Thanks for any advice!

HickamHatch
06-07-2011, 09:01 PM
Most people use stock pressure plate on P2R disk and it holds fine.