Welcome Nick, when is the dual disc going to be released? I'm going to be sled pulling next year some and running right under 600hp so what do you recomend?

Andy

 

He knows what he is talking about, you are right there. And he is runnin our first design of the Full ceramic clutch and his brother has our full feramic in his truck.

 

Well we are waiting on the flywheels to be finished up right now. Was supposed to be in early January but the last batch we got we didnt like the flywheel so we had them make some changes which meant they had to make new dies and that has delayed it a ton. Im personally hoping to get them no later than late January but it all depends on how they turn out this time. I will keep everyone up to date on the release because we have many waiting on them, incuding A guy in Iowa building a sled truck.

Is it going to be a full on sled puller??? Or is it going to stay your daily driver??? If its going to be a daily driver our lower rated dual disc will do just fine. But if u are only going to be an all out puller i would recommend the higher HP rated pulling DD. If you are just looking for once in a while pulling a single disc will hold up but will just not last as long as a dual disc. We have a customer that has put 10+ sled pulls a single disc full ceramic clutch. He has reported back that it has only gotten grabbier after the abuse he has put it through and is still holding strong and is not slipping to this date. And has an estimated 25,000 miles on that clutch.

 

I plan between 25-50 hooks a year starting in 09 and everyday driver. It will also pull my trailers still. If you can will you PM me some prices on the differetn clutches.

Andy

 

Off the top of my head that I can think of is going to be issue with EGT's. This means you will need to address a larger turbo, larger inner-cooler, larger exhaust and air intake. In additon to these things would be the high pressure boots and Fire ring the head. I know there is more but this is a quick list of the highlights.

These trucks hold pretty well up to the 450hp mark, after that you are creating weak spots all over the place.

 

Part of the build-up is to do a nice TT kit from Bell turbo. I figured an intercooler and boots would be part of the equation also. I was hoping to not tear the engine apart yet. It's got 150k on it and still runs strong. I haven't done a compression check yet, but it feels really good. I figured it'd bomb it and then refresh it once the engine got tired. Fire ring has to be done once you pass 45 psi or so right? The truck tows every once in awhile, and has been pulled from daily driver duty. I'm trying to turn it into my hotrod truck - so to speak, but I don't want to absolutely anhilate reliability either...

 

It can be done with a lot of work and money, but no matter how you look at it HP equals Heat and excess heat kills. That's just the down side of the games we play.