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I predict a Riot - 15/10/12 at 10:20 PM

The concentric clutch slave cylinder and release bearing has been leaking fluid and was making a little pool overnight under the car so I have taken the engine and box out and split them.

The clutch although it still has a bit of life left is going to be replaced along with the pressure plate and slave cylinder.

Now the question is do I fit a Borg and Beck or a LuK three way clutch kit?

Does any one have experience of either with a Ford Zetec SE (Sigma) engine?

The car is used for road and occasional track day use so no racing starts etc and weighs less than half of the donor so
I don't think a competition clutch is needed.

Thanks

Adrian

beaver34 - 16/10/12 at 06:58 AM

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Originally posted by I predict a Riot
The concentric clutch slave cylinder and release bearing has been leaking fluid and was making a little pool overnight under the car so I have taken the engine and box out and split them.

The clutch although it still has a bit of life left is going to be replaced along with the pressure plate and slave cylinder.

Now the question is do I fit a Borg and Beck or a LuK three way clutch kit?

Does any one have experience of either with a Ford Zetec SE (Sigma) engine?

The car is used for road and occasional track day use so no racing starts etc and weighs less than half of the donor so
I don't think a competition clutch is needed.

Thanks

Adrian


how much are both options? do you have any plans to upgrade the power

standard genuine ford clutch take 150bhp all day, i ran a helix organic item at 180bhp in mine and now an ap 5 1/4 with 300bhp

I predict a Riot - 16/10/12 at 07:22 AM

There is about £20 between the two choices.

The only upgrades I might do is to de-cat the exhaust, so max power would be about 10bhp over the stock 125bhp.

There is also an option of either plastic or aluminium concentric slave.

perksy - 16/10/12 at 07:32 AM

Have fitted Borg & Beck ones in the past to tin tops and had no issues


Like you say, your car is half the weight of the car the clutch was designed for

adithorp - 16/10/12 at 12:17 PM

Either as both are quality clutches but my preferance would be LUK

Jenko - 16/10/12 at 02:42 PM

I've purchased a standard clutch for my J15 build - this was £95 from ebay and included the standard slutch, pressure plate and slave cylinder / release bearing.....Even though I'm expecting around 140 - 150 bhp from the puma engine on throttle bodies and a decent exhaust, it only has punt a car along that weighs in at around 500kgs, so should in theory be very under stressed.

Only time will tell, but realistically I would imagine a standard would be more than fine.