Clutch pedal travel

[Pedders]

Hi all,

Filled and bled the clutch for the very first time. It's working fine, is heavy (but I expected that as it is well documented), but the pedal has quite a short travel.

This I didn't expect - I guess I thought it would be like an old g50 911, which is also heavyish (by modern standards) but with a fairly long travel.

Is this normal, or do I need to investigate? I am using a 997 turbo 'box with the standard Ultima supplied master cylinder and a porsche GT3 slave.

Cheers.

[Storer]

Not the same set up as you but my clutch has quite a long travel.


Paul

[Abbosevolution]

Mines the same, not a lot of travel and quite heavy - I've got used to it in the 800 miles It's done so not a problem.

[Pedders]

Thanks for the replies, both. What set up do you have, Paul?

[confusionhunter]

I had the uprated sachs clutch in the G50 and the pedal gave me a blister! (although that will also be down to my shoe!). I went a size smaller on the clutch master cylinder and its much nicer and the travel is enough that I have free play too. But again, just cos it worked on mine your set ups might be different. I used a 0.625 inch rather then the std one from memory.

[Storer]

Mine is an LS7 with G50/52 transmission. Clutch is a Factory supplied one (heavy duty AFAIK) and the slave cylinder is a German Teflon one

http://www.mpl-tuningparts.de/english/porsche.html

In the depths of my memory I think I changed the master cylinder for one that made it slightly lighter. If you do this it does result in the pedal needing to go almost full travel to fully release drive.

I have driven tractors all my life so a heavy clutch is not too much of an issue to me and I can cope with traffic jams with my setup.

Paul

[mt308]

When I built my car I thought the clutch was going to be almost unusable when I fitted it - more to do with the weight of it rather than the travel.

However once the car complete and actually able to be driven the clutch doesn't feel all that bad. I have the uprated factory clutch and standard factory cylinder set up. G50/20 box.

Mark

[UltimaCH]

Guess we all need to muscle our left legs...

[F.C.]

G50/52 heavy duty Sachs clutch pack, had quite a short action (though plenty left to go to the floor) but was leg busting in slow traffic.
Changed out the master cylinder for next one down, much easier on the leg but as others have said it is pedal to the floor (almost) for complete disengagement.

[georg]

Hi. I use this pump clutch / http://www.mpl-tuningparts.de/english/porsche.html 4 years and it is excellent. Reduces the force on the pedal.
But before buying Ultima squats you have to train it then helps.
Regards
Georg

[Pedders]

Thanks Georg - that looks an easy solution.