A 4-paddle plate with a std clutch cover (or maybe just a slighlty uprated one) will easily cope with 200BHP+. Because you are clamping a smaller area than a std drive plate, you get more clamping force as the pressure plate is concentrating its pressure on a smaller surface area. Years back, i ran a S2 with just a stg1 clutch (wasnt a paddle) and that coped with 220bhp and 225ft/lbs of torque. It is the torque figure that will inevitabley determine whether it will slip, not the BHP.
Last edited by B16CVH; Apr 17, 2009 at 12:05 PM.