I literally broke the stock clutch


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Alex911

FORD GT OWNER - FROM RUSSIA TT FGT
Mark IV Lifetime
Jan 22, 2008
73
Moscow, Russia
This is what happens when the car is abused with the stock clutch. I have ordered a new one from Kyle 3 weeks ago and decided that I could abuse my car now. I was launching from 3-4 k RPM and every 180 turn I did was a burnout :)
This is what happened after about 3 days of abuse :) Thank god the clutch took the hit and not the tranny.
New clutch should arrive in 1 day :)
If it doesn't arrive in time though - I have a used (600 miles) clucth on the wrecked GT that I bought - could that be temporarily (1 week) put on to my car or it is not reccomended? (We have another runway event on the 25th - so I really need the car to be running)

Thanks,
Alex
 

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This is what happens when the car is abused with the stock clutch. I have ordered a new one from Kyle 3 weeks ago and decided that I could abuse my car now. I was launching from 3-4 k RPM and every 180 turn I did was a burnout :)
This is what happened after about 3 days of abuse :) Thank god the clutch took the hit and not the tranny.
New clutch should arrive in 1 day :)
If it doesn't arrive in time though - I have a used (600 miles) clucth on the wrecked GT that I bought - could that be temporarily (1 week) put on to my car or it is not reccomended? (We have another runway event on the 25th - so I really need the car to be running)

Thanks,
Alex
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If you end up using the clutch off the parts car as an emergency/temporary "fix", be sure you install the parts car's FLYWHEEL too.:wink :cheers
 
Hey There Alex,

We did the exact same thing to our GT's clutch on the 2006 Targa rally.

Our clutch broke on the last stage of the last day. Fortunately we were able to limp it through the stage but it was a bit of a struggle.
 
congrats!
 
Remind me NOT to take this car back in on trade! :frown :driving:
On a positive note, glad you are enjoying the car. Wish you had some footage of this destruction taking place! :thumbsup
 
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An interesting exercise for sure

Thank you for sharing

Shadowman
 
shelbyelite said:
Remind me NOT to take this car back in on trade! :frown :driving:
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:lol:loltoo funny!
 
shelbyelite said:
Remind me NOT to take this car back in on trade! :frown :driving:
On a positive note, glad you are enjoying the car. Wish you had some footage of this destruction taking place! :thumbsup
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My mind kind of thinks like Shelby.

If I was a GT buyer, I'll be researching the archives here, and that would be a deal breaker if I was able to make the vin connection.
 
I can testify to the fact that Alex does not baby his car...he drives the absolute hell out of it!!:biggrin
 
should be a felony under "car abuse"
 
That sounds like fun.

Any chance for video of the next event?
 
So Alex, how many hard launches did the the clutch handle?
 
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