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Wow, this is a 11 year long thread. Amazing. I am really happy to see you still innovating your car
. Do you have a picture of the clutch pads? I would be interesting to see it to get an idea what could have happend. Just out of curiosity, do you know the clutch pressure and maximum torque the engine transfers over the clutch into the main shaft?
Understood. Which ECU you are using for engine control? Does it supply also free to choose parameter mapping and output for the control of the torque support of the EPS?
Thanks, from the wear pictures I would claim the material of the wear "slave" has insufficient temperature capability. You can see the streaks on the metal ring of the pressure side? This indicates the wear slave material don't like temperature. Normal wear produces dust particles, which is dry. But here we see the compound material melts and creates those streaks. I would not go again with the same clutch. Why don't you use just the series clutch? It would be sufficient up to 270 Nm regarding normal use, excessive tire smoking not included
. I use the stock clutch on my 280 Nm K20, just an Elise with 750 kg, but no slipping on the clutch side. I am not sure on the tire side 🤣.
I don't think so. It is known to fail for different reasons. Fixing one thing might be not enough when in general the quality is the issue. We have a saying here in Germany, "Buy cheap, buy twice!". Twice might be not enough, only if one issue is on all batches. But here you will find everything, from controllability to extrem wear. Just my two cents.
You are going to buy the 2nd clutch, you invested likely 2 hours for the dismantle, having the car staying at home in it's case for days and have to "repair" eventually the next Clutchmaster FX300 to be on spot and you have to assemble the engine-transmission a 2nd time. Ok, if that is still more economical, fine
. In my case, I pulled the tranny two times as the gearbox case broke after the repair of the gear wheels did overheat. Now I bought a low mileage SPWM tranny for setting up this right from basis. No gearbox case welding, it will find directly it's way to the end of the metal cycle. Pulling the tranny is annoying when the chassis is a Lotus Elise. Around 3 h dismantle, fixing something, 2 h assembly, so at least 1 day for nothing. In one day I can tune about 80 % of an race engine and earn fine money or having a fine day with my family. Spending time on things, which might, eventually work, but are known to fail is just like preventing one from having a better time. Also just my two cents.
I have an Excedy Stage 1 on my 310 hp Elise (2-Liter NA engine). It has a lower controllability compared to an OEM RSP clutch, the sweet spot has a smaller pedal moving distance, which is ok when running through the gears but it anyone's me when parking into a parking lot backwards. The combination of a 74 mm TB and very light flywheel and an insensitive clutch needs a bit more revvs and more slip on the clutch to move that tiny, flat and very good overview-able chassis. Sounds like the guy driving it has an race engine setup inside or can't drive that car properly into a parking lot
. The Excedy quality is, from my experience based on direct feedback on Honda events, the better of those two. I would have choosen the OEM, and it might have worked out torque-wise, but it was on the edge, as torque exceeds 200 ftlb's. Of course. My hobby is my side job too. So I have rarely time for my own stuff. I drove my Lotus since I have it since 2012 less then 6000 km. One day tuning means good money, one day working on future projects means a good future, one day working on the Lotus just for repair means loosing time and taught me choosing next time for the right parts only or doing more of the former.
Nice find. I am looking forward to read your report about it: installation, grip, sweet spot and later on durability
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.Yes, thanks, now I am back in the picture again.
DC definitely would know the answer, they sell and build this stuff for years now.
Ok, will emphasise more down low. Fits maybe good to the application with the huge inertia increase because of the AWD mass and friction.
