I'm sure I read in this forum somewhere that Dan fr said an uprated clutch wasn't necessary on a k03 as an oem clutch could take anything a k03 could throw at it so when I need a new one as long as I'm not launching it all the time wouldn't an oem clutch and flywheel be ok?
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Sorry, I missed this post. If Dan said that I'd dispute it, personally! Even a new OEM clutch would quickly get tired of 350+lb/ft, whether that's k03, k04 or whatever turbo makes the boost.
He might have been talking in terms of Stage 1, max. Once you start with Stage 2, and certainly with uprated pumps, the peak torque just gets too much for a standard clutch.
It gets expensive!
I'm not quite sure that what I said. If you're referring to this post (had to search!)
http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,106010.0/nowap.htmlThe OP had an 80k clutch and was only stage 1 tuned, hence why I said it will cope fine as long you don't abuse the clutch - launches, loading it up in high gears etc. It depends massively on driving style.
FYI My cars been on what was a new standard clutch for about 20k now at Stage 2+.... But since the car is a family daily, it never gets launched, or loaded up in high gears and is driven quite sedately a lot of the time. It copes with full torque in 1st, 2nd and 3rd which is all its used for when I'm out enjoying it.... Once you're up in to 3rd, the upshift to 4th misses out the peak torque RPM so it becomes less of an issue...... Don't get me wrong I could quite happily invoke slip in 6th gear at sub 3k rpm if I really wanted on a motorway, but its a non-issue that is easily avoided with a gear change since these little turbos can make over a bar of boost at sub 2k RPM in 6th....