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You have to pay for an adjustable pressure plate and they can be a pain, as your belhousing needs to have holes in it for adjustment. Better to just go with a non-adjustable piece.

With Long style and Diaphragm plates having roughly the same static pressures these days (not like it was in the 60's/70's, when we were looking at 3000-3500 lb pressure plates), I don't really have a negative feeling about Long style plates, but it just depends on what style actuation is used and what fork is used.

For instance, with older factory Ford cars, the Long style is preferred as the mechanical linkage will over-center a diaphragm plate. However, on a Cobra, with some cars using passenger-side pivot balls, or hydraulic bearings, then a diaphragm pressure plate seems to be the better solution.

I routinely use McLeod and RAM. High quality pieces. Can't say that for some of the other brands.