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Old 09-20-2008, 09:15 PM
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Just to stir the pot a little.

We had failure after failure after failure with the McLeod throw out bearing units. We were changing them in our customer's cars at a rate of 1/month for a while. I will NEVER use one again.

I did break down on the billet chassis car we are using because of extreme space constraints and used the Tilton unit. The clutch is like a bear trap and so we just did a massive redesign to handle the external unit. There is NO comparison between the pedal pressures--the external unit is far, far easier on the leg.

The Tilton would not release the clutch without a big master cylinder. After a day on the track, I said, no way am I going to deliver this.

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