Anyone use know TILTON clutch's?
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I have always used a TILTON 7.25 inch triple plate - then changed to a twin plate Cerametallic Rally for better road use. There seems to be a error on the TILTON website about the plate set up. The local deal suggests that the last plate (nearest to the flywheel) goes opposite to the first plate. I ran this for the past four years but last week I stripped the teeth on the plate nearest to the flywheel. Because it was "the wrong way around" (I think) the plate was engaged on the main shaft just by the skin of its teeth (if you excuse the pun.!) By putting the plate the other way around, the teeth would have far more spline to sit on. So the dealer says plates face opposite, TILTON webpage says both the same way, but a TILTON diagram show opposite?
I will email TILTON as well but just wondered if anyone uses this clutch??
I will email TILTON as well but just wondered if anyone uses this clutch??
I've got an sbc twin plate clutch (alloy vette item with Mcleod plates) and steal sfi flywheel I'm never going to use. I bought it by mistake thinking it would fit an ls1 crank but one of the bolts is in the wrong place and the flywheel o/d is smaller then an ls1 so is miles away from the starter. I'm about to advertise it along with some sbc crower stroker sportsman rods 
ooops. You can pm me if interested.
ooops. You can pm me if interested.GTRCLIVE said:
Exactly which clutch did you use before, and which one are you using now.... how many miles ect on them aswell, would be nice to know what the differences are. And seeing your a long term owner I would to hear your opinoins on both...
Pro Cons etc...
Cheers
Clive
Hi Clive, I have only ever used this clutch, but started with a triple plate set up. I got the clutch (and gbox 50/50) from my uncle who raced an ultima many years ago. He went to a hewland gbox and so this came up when I was building mine. It uses a saab slave cly, and the tilton clutch. The main reason for not using the standard porker clutch (I was told) that there is too much torque from a SBC engine- especially a big BHP ones. The triple plate metallic was a case of either two blacklines when you pull away or it stalled. The twin plate is far more forgiving. I have had this clutch for 9 years and 25,000 miles. It only failed as I (think) I placed one of the plates the wrong way around. Otherwise it would have lasted forever (no sign of any wear at all after 25k miles including a lot of drag strip type starts.) I will try to put some photos up here if I can master the technology! Hope this helps.Pro Cons etc...
Cheers
Clive
http://www.tiltonracing.com/pdfs/82.pdf
Is this the clutch.... seems both plates pointing in the same direction
Is this the clutch.... seems both plates pointing in the same direction
I went to Silverstone today to get the new plates, they said "both ways" showed them a printout of the website.... he went quiet....
interesting thing is that I also emailed tilton USA technical guys and they said "one plate in either direction - check the website!" (as in stupid limey RTFM!)
then I showed him this/his webpage...... he hasn't replied yet................
I don't think it actually matters as long as I check all the clearances etc but interesting that the website differs from the TILTON technical dept! Will let you know what they say.
By the way - these clutches are built to take up to 650 ftlbs of torque min if your interested in fitting one.
interesting thing is that I also emailed tilton USA technical guys and they said "one plate in either direction - check the website!" (as in stupid limey RTFM!)
then I showed him this/his webpage...... he hasn't replied yet................
I don't think it actually matters as long as I check all the clearances etc but interesting that the website differs from the TILTON technical dept! Will let you know what they say.
By the way - these clutches are built to take up to 650 ftlbs of torque min if your interested in fitting one.
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thotfast on Monday 21st April 19:38
thotfast on Monday 21st April 19:38Gassing Station | Ultima | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff