A follow-up on the situation.
The Exo-Skel has been match balanced to the OEM ZO6 clutch assembly (12 grammes of correction on the outside circumference) and I am back on ZERO vibration as stock...the inconvenience I was feeling previously between 1800rpm/2200 rpm with the Spec is gone...
The first take off after install was simply horrible, chatter was really strong...
Ok for that and start the break-in process!!!
After two nights of driving in town only stop and start at red lights the pedal release became acceptable and manageable.
I decided to start beating on the clutch progressively with some soft launch always taking time to allow the clutch to cool down between each.
I went harder on the launch as the pedal release was getting more precise and predictable.
After a complete cool down I tried to start the car on a normal driving around town mode...Chatter was almost gone!!!
The bedding in process appears to be a long one with this assembly, the different materials seems just to need time to melt all together, which can be a guaranty of durability...my guess is that it is going to be a better feel and efficiency with the time and use...let me know if I am right?
The pedal travel is really short with all the OEM hydraulic, I am going to use a pedal travel stop/limiter, my thoughts are that pushing on the finger pressure plate all the way is not helping at all and anyway I don't need it to disengage a gear and have it engage smoothly and quickly, do you have any feed back on this?
The pedal stiffness is not "very" different from the one I had with the Spec (a slight more amount from stock) and my wife can (after breaking-in done) drive the car in the traffic without any concerns.
I am nicely surprised how silent this Exo-Skel is in Neutral.
When I push on the pedal and disengage the pressure plate and have the two discs plus the intermediate plate floating the noise is really low for a “race assembly”.
The remote bleeder mounted on the new slave is efficient and after the 3 first days of heat cycles and the first series of hot launches I decided to bleed my system, the OEM liquid had already turn black...which I guess is normal.
Do you have any advice about a nice and efficient clutch fluid to use?
On the tuning side I had to modify the Throttle Follower Decay (P/N) which indicates clearly that inertia is less with the Exo-Skel vs. the Spec Aluminum Flywheel…
Waiting on your comments.
Christian
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