Well, I have had the thing for ~40,000 miles (2 years). Still grips great. It has broken my clutch release mechanism twice. 1st time was the lever arm, right at the pivot. This time, it sheared the double pins that hold the lever to the release fork.

It's a good thing I enjoy working on my car. The good news: I can now do a clutch job pretty quickly.

Which ACT plate do you have and what disc?

Yeah, what are you running? I have about 5000 miles on my extreme plate with modified street disc and no problems like that. The pedal is really stiff compared to stock but I haven't had any bad issues. I hope I don't!

Brent

I'm telling you man, get a piece of steel welded on top of the arm. I broke mine twice when I got fed up with it..... I have the street pp and the regular disk.

i have the extreme , stock disk broke the arm once before 15,000 miles on it

you must get a strip of medal welded on top of the fork. I will cost you about 30 bucks. Mine broke at 700 miles. Since i got the strip welded on no problems. I aslo have the extreme pressure plate.

Thanks for the help guys. I may do that now before something happens.

Brent Meints

It's the HD Pressure plate. I got the arm welded. Didn't put a plate on, just gave a guy at a muffler shop $5 and he put a nice big lumpy weld all over the top. :cool: I also found some nice bolts and nuts to replace the pins that broke.

From the failure analysis, looks like the pins worked their way out so that they were only half way in, and then sheared from the resulting double shear stress.

To anyone who is going to take the lever out that has not done it before, there are a total of -four- pins that hold the lever to the fork. Two small ones sit inside two larger ones. Punch the small inner ones out first, followed by the larger ones. Oh, and replace them with brand new ones so that you don't end up like me.

Trans sure felt heavy today...

if you guys are having problems with the pressure plate buy the pressures plate from clutch specalities there pressure plate does not increase pedel pressure and there fore does not couse you to break the fork. if you look at shaggys car the 400+ hp 200sx se-r in sport compact car he uses that plate. also i have had two se-r and ran both clutch specalties pressure plates with no problem..... one clutch was a stage 3 and now i have a stage 1 on my new se-r...... email if you want the web site

Originally posted by Driven97
I also found some nice bolts and nuts to replace the pins that broke.

From the failure analysis, looks like the pins worked their way out so that they were only half way in, and then sheared from the resulting double shear stress.

To anyone who is going to take the lever out that has not done it before, there are a total of -four- pins that hold the lever to the fork. Two small ones sit inside two larger ones. Punch the small inner ones out first, followed by the larger ones. Oh, and replace them with brand new ones so that you don't end up like me.

Trans sure felt heavy today...

Can you take pics of this? You replaced the pins with bolts? Bolts are stronger? From what I remember the pins are tiny...so did you drill it out for bolts?

I have the ACT HDSS, I know its not going to be enough to hold @400whp, I will soon have. whats the best clutch to hold this kind of power, I am leaning towards XTR6, unless someone changes my mind,

I broke the arm on my SE-R with a crappy centerforce a long time ago. would like to see pics of welded arm.