Diaphragm vs. Borg and Beck.............

yellow rose said

I have forgotten more about clutches than you will ever learn, thank you very much.

As I said, junk is JUNK at any price. BTW, I use a Sof-Lok in a DD and drive it all the time. So does my wife.

If it's a stock or even a warmed over 273 then you can use a factory clutch.

As I said, a diaphram is a contraception device. That is all.

Or, if you are a cheep ***, you can make one as a pressure plate cover. That's why they are so popular. They are cheep to make, nonadjustable, and virtually worthless for anything but a stock application. Again, if it's for a stock application 273, use a stocker.


Geebus you guys love to justify spending bad money and convincing other guys to do it too.

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Whatever you say.

The McLeod diaphragm clutch in my 400+ hp street car works great, no issues whatsoever. And because it works so well, and so much better than a stock set up, I have absolutely no reservations about recommending it to other folks with similar applications. And I'll keep doing exactly that, because it's a good clutch for the application I'm using it in. Maybe if I was trying to tell some guy with a 9 second bracket car to use one you'd have a point, but you literally recommended that a guy with a stock 273 "step up" and run a soft lok. That's beyond spending "bad money", it's completely ridiculous. Even if he could do it and it worked great, there's absolutely no reason to spend $2k on a clutch for a street car with a sub 500hp small block (or in this case, sub 200hp). It's a complete waste of money. The clutch he bought will probably last the life of the car. And it will never need to be tuned or adjusted either.