[Justin517]

Sounds kinda like the restrictor thing they put in manual E36 BMWs. My dad has one and it makes the feel of the clutch very vague...Its like you hold your foot in one place and it starts engaging...and if you keep it there it engages more and more. Lots of guys take them out. For street or road course cars it would suck...but for drag cars it does make sense. Am I on the right track here? Or did I not make any sense at all...

the 2 E46s ive driven had this (both have since been removed) but none of the E36s I have driven had it... is this something he added?

I have heard of lotsa E46 guys removing them.

 

[Justin517]

$166 to make your expensive grippy clutch feel like an $85 Auto Zone special? Lots of people spend time and effort removing delay valves and dampeners from their cars.

that is sort of what I was thinking.

I mean, I could understand using it on a purpose built drag car where you are making more hp and have more traction than the drivetrain can handle, but I didnt like the sorta "vagueness" it gave in the cars I drive with a stock one, and I would imagine it wouldnt be that great in a track car.

Maybe the tilton one is better than the stock BMW one? but I'm not sure how, seeing as they do the exact same thing.

but... thats just my guess/opinion.

 

[Justin517]

I wonder if "divorcing" the clutch system from the brakes and using something like synthetic ATF (like you, nuugen use in the steering racks) would let the clutch master and slave cylinder live longer happier lives? Brake fluid isnt very friendly to much of anything.

 

[Justin517]

ah OK... for some reason I thought brake fluid would be "meaner" to most materials than oil is... but I was just basing that off what it does to skin, lol. But now that I think about it, ATF and oils are pretty mean themseleves to rubber stuff.