Yeah mistro you can hear in our videos how much snappier your 13 lb JHM lwfw is than my 26lb stocker.
Try to hold off and do the clutch and exhaust at the same time if you can. Also make sure you do everything at once. Maybe rear main se while your in there, trust me. It isn’t a bad job at all if you have a lift like you did for your supercharger install, right?
Thanks much for the responses, and Jake, appreciate the pointer to your install document.
This is excellent advice, hadn’t even thought about that. Thanks! And yes, I have a lift at my business so that will make it easier…hopefully.
And if it’s your cup of tea, get the short shifter trio, if you’re into that sort of thing. I got it done with clutch on my old B6. Another small but mighty JHM mod.
Bongo beat me to it. The shifter trio and cross rod make a big improvement.
Get the 5r clutch and lightweight flywheel. That clutch will be able to handle all the power that you want to throw at it. If my car wasn’t down for repairs at the moment then I would take you for a spin.
I had thought about that mod, but absolutely love the way this car shifts currently so not going to mess with it.
That is exactly what I have waiting on the toolbox to be installed. Definitely excited for it.
Everything all right with your car?
Interesting. I thought it might be OK. Mine is stock, has 60,000 miles and has more dragstrip launches I’d say than any other rs4 clutch ever. It’s still strong as hell. Saturday it handled 19 launches in 3 hrs, many of which were 5-6 passes in a row without waiting.
Cool.
Nothing major. My AC compressor crapped out back in March and the alternator recently spilled its guts all over turn 15 and 16 of VIR. I also have some other things planned.
yes it most definitely does!
Just out of curiosity, how much did VIR charge you for teh cleanup?
If you guys installed the blower, you should be able to install the clutch/flywheel. Just be very dilligent and follow the instructions almost painfully. The JHM clutch kits have been great, and the problems we have seen from people have been install related.
QFT.
For some reason the clutch install is more intimidating then the s/c install to me, but going to tackle it once the JHM downpipes show up and see how it goes.
I’d say the sc install is much more detail intensive and time consuming, but it’s also a bunch of little things. The clutch is a bigger single job and in a tighter area with a heavy part. I pulled my blower off a couple times but only pulled the trans off once and the trans was more of a hassle to me than the blower (granted I’m not talking about full blower install, just removing all the connections etc for header install).