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Old 12-02-2007, 05:52 AM   #62
clsmooth
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Join Date: May 2005
Chapter/Region: VIC
Location: Vancouver
Vehicle:
2000 RS Coupe
Blue Ridge Pearl

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Today was clutch day at my bros. shop. He once changed the tranny on an 02 WRX so he was already fairly familiar with what's involved with a Suby. (Supposedly the guy sheared 1st and 2nd clean.)

I did manage to capture the moment where my bros. thinking, what did he get himself into.

Before going up in the air, we first pulled the intercooler, dog bone mount, connectors and starter outta the way from the top.

The best way to do things in the end was to take EVERYTHING outta the way.

I must say I'm very impressed with the light weight of the factory drive shaft. Almost feels like purchasing a carbon fibre shaft a waste of money.

Did get to the clutch eventually to dig it out.

It still had... maybe 1mm of pad left on the flywheel side of the disk. The teeth on the stock pressure plate were weak. I was able to push down on some with my thumb. 4 large, dual springs vs. 6 individual smaller springs on the new clutch.

Stock flywheel still seems good.

A resurfacing and it'd be good as new again.

A bit of insurance.

While everything's apart, popped in a new rear main seal from Subaru.

While my bros. took care of all that, I cleaned the tranny of the clutch rubbery dust and installed the new throw out bearing.

My bros.'s getting pretty damn good. In the time it took me to change this bearing, he had the old clutch and flywheel out and torquing down the new pieces.

New parts installed.

Despite a bit of a risk using used/free parts and ordered online, everything fit perfectly.

Tranny fit back on after a bit of lovin'


Brought the car back down and changed the clutch line for a stainless one.

I bought this thing over 2 years ago and never got around to installing it until now haha

All in all, we were there for 6 hours. The clutch part itself took 4, but there was the extra time of changing the fluids in the engine, tranny, diff and bleeding the clutch system. Plus, we found a broken off ground between the tranny and body of the car we wouldn't have found otherwise. Found a good spot for it on the engine and the car seems get to idle better now.

The only "bad" things that happened were we had to reuse the exhaust manifold gaskets, and there's a small leak but no big deal. Also, the top starter bolt almost snapped off. Got it out in one piece but the threads were severely ****ed. Ironically, this was the first 'big' bolt we took out... we're thinkin... oh **** LOL Everything else went absolutely smoothly. The longest part was connecting and mounting the new clutch line at the firewall. Neither of us could have small enough hands.

I'm also out on a bit of a limb by using one of those F1 Racing clutches off eBay. I just wanted something that can hold some boost for a few years while I built my other engine on the side. This thing is suppose to be able to handle something like 284 hp, so we'll see.

So far it drives quite nice! I've never had it running and driving this smooth before! Drove back from Abby to Van and it was great. Clutch feel reminds me of my Centreforce dual friction I had in my CRX years ago. Engages nicely at about halfway of peddle travel, vs. 1/4 off the floor with the old clutch. I don't have to rev it up as much to get goin from a red light.
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