Today my Quaife LSD and Exedy HD clutch install was finished.

Sure enough, the clutch isn't disengageing properly.

After many calls and headaches to various people, it seems what's happening is the rivets on the clutch plate are fouling on the flywheel centre bore.

Apparently this is a known issue for that particular clutch and our cars, among clutch specialists. But as I bought the clutch kit from Autobarn, I was not warned about this.

Even when I rang Exedy for troubleshooting, they did not mention this.

Anyway, thanks to my diff guy pulling some strings, the hope of making it out onto the track this monday is still alive.

This afternoon the car was towed to his mate's place, whos gonna pull it out, get the flywheel centre bore enlarged, machined again, and put it all back together over the weekend.

If it goes to plan I'll have the car back on the weekend, in time for the pre-booked track outing on Monday.

It seems virtually everything that could go wrong has, fingers crossed no more dramas occure.

let this serve as a warning to fellow 3rd gen manual magna drivers:

If you get an aftermarket clutch, make sure there are no clearance issues with the flywheel and the rivets in the centre of the clutch plate, before you put it together and realise it won't disengage.

Anyone else experienced this?

Anyone else experienced this?

First I've heard of it mate. There were no probs with my clutch fouling on my flywheel but I don't know what type mine is, it has a purple cover plate - so I don't think it's an exeedy.

I've got that exact clutch in mine, bought it from Megatron. Never had any problems.

That problem has been discussed on this forum a couple of times.

The clutch from megatron is slightly different from what you get from excedy.

I've got an excedy clutch, but i dont have a HD i have a cushioned button. It slipped under hard shifts for just under a week them came good. Could it just be the clutch plate bedding it? you're not supposed to give it any stick until you've done 500kms of normal around town driving

Ive never had any clearance issues with my Xtreme clutch (adelaide clutch service) unit in my magna.
The main reasons i went the Xtreme unit over the Exedy unit was they are local (in adelaide) to me plus they offered to make me a clutch that suited my needs exactly and i had heard off issues with the exedy clutchs before.

I've got an excedy clutch, but i dont have a HD i have a cushioned button. It slipped under hard shifts for just under a week them came good. Could it just be the clutch plate bedding it? you're not supposed to give it any stick until you've done 500kms of normal around town driving

It aint slipping, it just won't disengage. I can't put it into gear with the car started.

Boy do I wish I did a search here about the Exedy HDs before I took my car in :(

when u push the clutch pedal in, is the release fork moving at all? U will need to get someone to help you with that.

OK so the flywheel was pulled out, the centre bored out, machined again, and everything went back in.

Works fine now

The track will tell the whole story, but from having a bit of fun and running some errands, I am very impressed with the how the clutch and LSD feel.

Finally I can relax. With the amount of things that's gone wrong, It's been incredibly stressful trying to rush the diff and clutch in on time for Monday. Talk about cutting it fine.

Good luck tomorrow, mate.
Take all that stress out on the racetrack :D . By the end of the day you'll have forgotten all about the weekend...that's cars (like women!).

Chisholm, welcome to the wonderful world of modifying magna's!! with all your track work im sure the fun and games havent finished yet :badgrin: