crazycage

what clutch options are there for the mk1 focus rs ?

needs to hold 550hp.

thanks gary.

R-A-J

You nutter!!

give paul a bell, failing that give clarkee a bell, devils car hooked up proper at central, bollocks to that only eunning 300 odd brake, it was spinning them slick in third lol, thats all i can say though, never had the chance to have 550bhp car boo hiss

zetaboostboy522bhp

iam sure ian howell used a tvr or aston martin ap racing clutch in the focus , but you've got quarter masters , tilton , helix or have a word with ttv racing who make flywheels as they now custom build clutches.
whats the car for just drag racing or track day or all the above ?
clutch size of 240mm I would get a flywheel and go for 185mm as tilton for example have a clutch rated at 620lb-ft for £456 or thinking about it I think a cosworth clutch is 240mm so along as the splines are the same you could try one of them .

crazycage

bit of everything really , cossie clutch is the same spine but never seen one work properly yet so not keen on that and i want it to work out the box with no messing round.
will look into the others tho.

v man

Ian advised me for the fez at 500 bop on the ap 6 paddle with the heavy duty plate

Says it will be perfectly good enough

crazycage

thats what i have now but never seen them at that power

pee vee

What does luke use? Sachs?

robp-tt

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Exedy do a kit but only place i could find one was in the usa.i got a Sachs kit.its got a higher torque rating than the ap kits and was the best kit i could find without going custom

crazycage

link please.

is the sachs a paddle ?

robp-tt

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The Sachs is a normal style plate.it can take more torque than the ap 6 paddle setup.using my phone at the moment so can't do links. If you do a search for focus rs clutches on here there is a post i done with links for the Sachs kits. Will find some links tomorrow for you though

robp-tt

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Sachs kit is here
http://www.demonperformancecentre.co...1-clutch-parts

Rick

You'll be fine with what you have mate. Andy's S3 running similar power and 4wd works fine on the 240mm AP paddle.

Rick

Dicko&Vacant

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My sachs unsprung 4 paddle is fine mate, I also know hockey from Scotland uses the same clutch at over 500hp. They are actually porsche turbo clutches

nevsrevs

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XRT_si

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Devils 590bhp and Alex's 540bhp Zetecs both ran AP paddle clutches with the flywheel machines to allow more clamping force. Works fine.

xr2wishy

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i ran an AP 6 paddle with my old engine, 2.2 BAR peak and didn't slip with the gt3071r on the 2.1 zetec.
so for me i'd try one of those, but at 550bhp, i'm not sure it would go that far.

RS16iDale

I had a sachs full face on my frs not running quite as high power as that but never had a problem with it

crazycage

interesting mate , how did they maching off ? was it from the raised outer part that the cover plate bolts too?

xr2wishy

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curious to know this too, i think Gary you're on the money though so it tensions the cover a bit more.
i tried the cosworth plate and frs cover, it didn't work well, may have been the cover was weak, still got it though under the bench, wouldn't hold more than 12psi of boost on the gt30, a new paddle kit from AP held 2.2 BAR, so 32psi without slipping.