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Old Apr 17, 2009 | 12:02 PM
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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.

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