mitchell clutches?

Tcolesanti said:
How long ago? I think the last floater I got was in late '06 right after Houston, where I burnt up that clutch. But even the last one I got was the same thickness as the original that came with it.

-Tom
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I had my 3 year old one replaced this past fall of 2007.....And I do have to say it needed it. It was holding perfectly fine, but I wondered why it quit rattling when the clutch was pushed in. Turns out the floater was damn near cracked in half.....I saw the old one after. I should have asked for it as a souveneir :hehe: I'll be back at the shop tomorrow too Tom, there is a stack of new floaters there I can measure one just for sh!ts and giggles and let you know.
 
I don't even have the clutch anymore, but I do have two floaters up on the wall in my garage, both burnt up and cracked..........


-Tom
 
codyn said:
sbc or something else is better than a eep hands down
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Where do you think SBC and others got the pickup truck dual disk clutch idea?

I like my SB but I like the EEP pressure plate better. I'm on my 3rd SBC pressure plate (damn fingers kept breaking). In all fairness Peter has replaced them all free of charge but replacing a clutch isn't something I like to be good at. I'm down to a record time though, 15min oil change is childs play. :hehe:
 
jfaulkner said:
Where do you think SBC and others got the pickup truck dual disk clutch idea?

I like my SB but I like the EEP pressure plate better. I'm on my 3rd SBC pressure plate (damn fingers kept breaking). In all fairness Peter has replaced them all free of charge but replacing a clutch isn't something I like to be good at. I'm down to a record time though, 15min oil change is childs play. :hehe:
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well i had a eep clucth and everytime that it broke that pressure plate. they said we never seee that happen and charge me for another one i went though 3 and some clutch plates. so i guess ur lucky for getting them for free. i really dont think they were getting the idea from eep. i think HAISLEY came out with them before eep.
 
So the mitchell clutch is out of the question if you like banging gears out on the street and drag racing?
 
I can shift mine as fast as any other manuals I've been in...
 
jfaulkner said:
I do remember that when Ryan's exploded, he got red flagged just before the fully let out on the clutch (don't know why) and he backed up and went again (mistake). I agree though there are people that can break an anvil with a rubber mallet but I don't blame the clutch *stuff* happens and I don't know that a blanket was even required in that class.
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i cant remember if we required one at the time or not, but he was running one before and left it off cause he had pulled the tranny or something and just never put it back on........all i was looking at was a safety stand point, not as anything towards mitchell, seeing a aftermarket part fail like that and hurt someone makes me leary bout that part until its proven itself to me.......just one of those things.....
 
The EEP dual disc is the best clutch as far as all around goes from what I have used. Its offered in three ways: cast flywheel, billet flywheel, and billet flywheel with billet pressure plate(Is an SFI approved clutch). These clutches will take more abuse and still keep holding. There are some things that need to be checked before installing, other wise if the fingers are not set up sight clutch disc life isn't good. There has been problems with intermediate plates cracking. They are now cryiogen treated and that seems to help. There is a different intermediate plate for those who do not sled pull that is a solid plate with no heat grooves, these hold up great if your not getting the clutch really hot, if you do with these plates they will warp and cause problems. As far as Milby's clutch mishap it was the 2nd try in a row and the clutch was extremly hot, but the flywheel didn't come apart the pressure plate did sending springs and pieces of the dough nut flying through the track. That wasn't good but it still has nothing to do with the performance of the EEP clutch. When that happened in Hillsboro the sport wasn't like it is now Milby was the first one to make a street truck run like that and nobody else was turning the RPM he was. Ryan Milby worked for EEP untill fall of 2006. So he did find weak links, better an employee find out problems and do R&D for you than the customer. I think you can't go wrong with EEPs clutch.

Josh Woodruff
 
Josh Woodruff said:
The EEP dual disc is the best clutch as far as all around goes from what I have used. Its offered in three ways: cast flywheel, billet flywheel, and billet flywheel with billet pressure plate(Is an SFI approved clutch). These clutches will take more abuse and still keep holding. There are some things that need to be checked before installing, other wise if the fingers are not set up sight clutch disc life isn't good. There has been problems with intermediate plates cracking. They are now cryiogen treated and that seems to help. There is a different intermediate plate for those who do not sled pull that is a solid plate with no heat grooves, these hold up great if your not getting the clutch really hot, if you do with these plates they will warp and cause problems. As far as Milby's clutch mishap it was the 2nd try in a row and the clutch was extremly hot, but the flywheel didn't come apart the pressure plate did sending springs and pieces of the dough nut flying through the track. That wasn't good but it still has nothing to do with the performance of the EEP clutch. When that happened in Hillsboro the sport wasn't like it is now Milby was the first one to make a street truck run like that and nobody else was turning the RPM he was. Ryan Milby worked for EEP untill fall of 2006. So he did find weak links, better an employee find out problems and do R&D for you than the customer. I think you can't go wrong with EEPs clutch.

Josh Woodruff
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cryiogen treated are the one that i was busting. as far as all around i dont know about that. mine was used as all around goes and it never held up. as far as milby being the first to turn those rpm i would say i bet someone was doing it long before he was. he was the first to try it around down there in your area.
 
DIGGER said:
They are the same clutches that the EEP camp has been running for years. I don't know of Dave Mitchells ever coming apart or Milby's either. There are several trucks running the TTPA with there clutch turning 4500+ rpm with no problems and 50 plus hooks a year.
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I have a box of exploded clutch parts from Daves clutch explosion at Scheids, circa 2002. Cast flywheels are very bad for you. They since went to steel parts, while they old clutches held up good, I would not turn more than 4500 with one, or go over 600 hp, on a cast flywheel.
 
smknram said:
So the mitchell clutch is out of the question if you like banging gears out on the street and drag racing?
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Actually it is the opposite. The EEP clutch can be shifted very fast for a DD. The EEP is one of the best IMO. I would run one before a SBC any day.
 
Dodgentwo said:
So would you guys say the EEP clutch is a better choice than the SBC for a street/pullin truck?
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Bottom line, its not 2002 anymore, if you want to pull/race, even ONE TIME, be safe and get an SFI approved clutch, and blanket it, also.
 
Sledpuller said:
I have a box of exploded clutch parts from Daves clutch explosion at Scheids, circa 2002. Cast flywheels are very bad for you. They since went to steel parts, while they old clutches held up good, I would not turn more than 4500 with one, or go over 600 hp, on a cast flywheel.
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I still have 2 pieces of Dave's bell housing in the glove box in my truck from that night. Gene grabbed all of the cool pieces like the springs that were straightened.
 
To set the record straight I WAS running a fly wheel blanket that night at Hillsboro and I shouldn't have hooked twice in a row, and I know nothing of a girl getting hit or going to the hospital. The truck had all safety equipment and more than was required in that class. If someone did get hurt I send out my deepest apologies. My family was standing 75 ft from the starting line on the hillside. The last thing that I would ever want to do is hurt someone. It was not the fly wheel that came apart it was the cast pressure plate. The Stroud saftey blanket did an awesome job of keeping the parts contained. From that time forward EEP started testing multiple styles of clutches.
Ryan Milby
 
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