Boost Controller and Clutch question Options

[Chinosan89]

Hey guys I'm not really new to this forum but I haven't really been too active till as of recently, school's got me all tied up. But I'm Chino, live in UT. First 6gc I owned was a silver 98 st204, fell in love with it right away. Had it for about 2-3 years and decided to do a ST205 swap. The silver beast was unfortunately automatic so I bought another 6gc manual. I'm handing the silver beast down to my brother so eventually he'll be a 6gc freak like me too. I don't know a TON about motor work since I've had the automatic I just know a lot of body work so forgive me if I ask some stupid questions.

Recently bought my clip and started working on the motor. I have a projects thread on it.

Anyways enough with intro's I am looking into buying a boost controller and a clutch. I was recommended to clutch masters probably a stage 1 for now until I decide to boost more, but idk. I'm also looking into some boost controllers, anyone know of any good brands or easy use ones? I was recommended blitz dual spec but that one is kinda pricy, I was looking into blitz street spec but again not sure, never bought one. Anyone have any experience in these things that can lend me a hand?

[lagos]

Spec's are J-U-N-K, I wouldn't trust one on my lawn mower. Competition Clutch (same as clutch masters), ACT, or if you've got deep pockets, Exedy. You get what you pay for. Just saying. As far as boost controllers go, If you want a good cheap MBC, www.twos-r-us.com has a great MBC! Or if you want to go electronic route, you could run a Tru-Boost by AEM.

I'll look into those thanks! I think I'm gonna go with clutch masters I haven't heard too many bad things from them

But which disk are you going to buy from them?

I recently bought the clutchmasters fx500 for my car and Im very happy with it. The engagement and pedal feel is really good for something that has no springs and is easy to drive on the street. And if you look closely, the center section is attached to the friction materal with 8 VERY beefy rivets. This clutch should hold up to a lot of abuse. And the best part that won me over was the the entire clutch kit was about 300$, where as other brands charge 4-600 for the same thing.

But now look at clutchmasters lower end line. The FX100-300 line all use TINY rivets to connect the center section to the friction material. These are a known failure point on a few people with swaps. Then those same people come back and post about how (insert brand name) is worthless junk.

Now go look at the lower end line on Spec's website. Notice how the center section uses the same BIG rivets as the fx500 from clutch masters? Spec used to use the smaller rivets but it seems like they have moved away from them. Good decision, I think.

This post has been edited by lagos: Jun 21, 2012 - 2:16 PM