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Old 08-06-2011, 09:49 AM
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beebone
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Originally Posted by bigredspeed
Dasmopar, 1.1mm on the spring is a lot of tension, if you like running that much reduce the end play to say point 0.3-0.4mm on the end play and keep your eye on the spring, i use to run that on mugen and i noticed that the spring use to distort and tweak and the spring wound loose its tension, and i had also notice during long finals the clutch would go soft from the spring over heating from that much tension.
Try the mugen ultra hard grey spring if you can't get the black hard xray spring and try running less tension on the spring and more end play, that is where the snap comes from the clutch, its all in the end play.

Alex
Yes, 1.1 is a lot. See my thread to fix the problem.
Orignal flywieght, orignal spring, set as default.
Mod flywiehgt with some more wieght, harder srping, Serpent yellow shoe, clutch gap 0.6
http://www.serpent.com/news/10063/Bu...-3-Clutch.html

I saw the Serpent site then know whats going on with the Xray clutch
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