About that failed clutch…

So a stock (Luk) clutch isn’t up to the task once a supercharger is added to the mix. Go figure. And the car was down on power with the undersized intercooler.

Point of complete failure was on a downshift at the end of the front straight, but that only means the downshift was the final straw, not necessarily the root cause.

Hard to say whether the rivets sheared or the disc broke apart first.

For GTA Finals I have a gamble on my hands. Put another Luk clutch in which we know shifts well but we can assume is a ticking clock until it inevitably fails like the one above… or put the SPEC clutch/flywheel back in which will not fail like the Luk but it never disengaged right on the MV7, so we’d be hoping that it works better in the MV5 (the Luk was always better than the SPEC in this regard, but it was still not perfect in the MV7 and it improved when we switched to MV5).

I decided to put the SPEC in.

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