High Performance Clutch Help!!!!
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High Performance Clutch Help!!!!
Looking to get a new clutch for my audi A6 2.7T 6spdMT. Trying to decide between AWE-Tuning's stage 2 and stage 3 performance clutches. Am doing daily aggressive driving and occasional track trips. Pedal effort has no effect on my decision. Any reasons why I should not go for the better performing stage 3? Any thoughts would be awesome. Thanks.
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I like the AWE stage 3 clutch disk. Here's why: --->
The disk has a ceramic lining on the flywheel side, and kevlar on the pressure plate side. Why?
I think they do this to combine the aggressively high bite of ceramic with the more gentle engagement of kevlar to give them a moderate engagement bite at reasonable pedal pressure. When fully engaged the high Cf of ceramic will hold the torque but with less pressure than Kevlar alone would require. This would also put more heat into the flywheel than the pressure plate.
I used the AWE stage 3 clutch on my 400+ HP S4 with best results. It's also very tractable in traffic.
I think they do this to combine the aggressively high bite of ceramic with the more gentle engagement of kevlar to give them a moderate engagement bite at reasonable pedal pressure. When fully engaged the high Cf of ceramic will hold the torque but with less pressure than Kevlar alone would require. This would also put more heat into the flywheel than the pressure plate.
I used the AWE stage 3 clutch on my 400+ HP S4 with best results. It's also very tractable in traffic.
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Re: I like the AWE stage 3 clutch disk. Here's why: --->
Sounds like a great product. My only concern is that I have heard the clutch wears out real quick due to the high performance nature of the materials. I dont have 400+ horses....yet...but Im cranking out like 330 and 382 torque so looking for sometin that can withstand the abuse that I give it. Thanks again
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