I had a dealer put a new clutch in for me and they put some piece of crap OEM in and its not even 1 year later and its slipping. I have decided to screw it and keep the car and put a in either a SPEC StageII or an ACT both can be seen on Clutch City and both are Mitsubishi Racing Clutches. I am only pushing out about 250HP on mine but I want the heavy duty clutch for long life. I'm not a clutch dropper but I am heavy footed to say the least. Can anyone shed a little light on the 2 clutches and if so whats the difference between the 4,6, or the disc pad in that model. The SPEC Stage II is a Kevlar based and I am thinking of going that route. Im open to any input.

First of all, if you go to a dealer, you will always get OEM equipment. Secondly, racing clutches are not designed to last longer, in fact they don't last as long as OE clutches. My advice, learn to drive like a normal person, or pay the consequences without whining or blaming other people.

+1.

Most racing clutches are made to grab hard, but be short lived. this is the problem with needing to hold xxx amount of torque.

in fact, most of these "racing clutches" are just stock disks mounted on a pressure plate that has been revised for more clamping force.

Also, racing clutches will give you a much harder time engaging the clutch. possible chatter, and/or general funkiness when just driving around.

take your average six puck clutch. grabby? yes. Long life? no. you have to just about clutch drop the things off the line, worse when at a stop sign going up a hill.

Pick a clutch suited for your needs, not to tell have a racing clutch.

As far as your choices, I don't have much experience with the ACT clutches, but the 3000GT/Stealth spec II clutches are notorious for being short lived.

I would stick with a full face disk for your car. But that's just me. If you feel you need a stage II, or six puck, go for it. I'm not your mother. I don't feel respondsible for how you spend your money.

Thank you TTAngel for the very helpful input. red97gst if you want to just see yourself post, build your own forums. I asked for advice like that which was offered by TTAngel. I guess I should have said I'm open to any mature input, that which I thank TTAngel for once more.

red97gst isn't a bad guy. We're just too used to beating off the newbs with a billy-club. espeically in the Racing section. It gets thick in here at times. If you search around, you'll find me being a bass-turd to a few people...

Also, I missed the part in your post about the differences between clutch types.

A full face disk is just that. a full circle with pad all the way around. these tend to not grab as well as the pad clutches. They do have the added benefit of having little springs that help absorb the shock as you ease into the clutch.

The pads, or pucks, as I referred to them, look like flowers, if you will. a 4-pad has 4 pads around the outside of the central mounting hub, the 6-pads have 6. nothing earth shattering there. They are typically set up to grab harder, but are more of an "on-off" type clutch... in other words, they are very difficult to slip, and very easy to snub the engine/burn out at a stop sign. Definitely not for a beginer clutch driver.

I never really liked the way the puck clutches felt, or the chatter that comes with them. But once again, that's just me.

question....what do you have done to your eclipse? list of mods? pictures?

You of all people should know how to check the mods from someones post. I have a few more mods I will post after I get a dyno as well. I will just say this, the WRX and SRT4 are fun to play against but they never prevail. I am having a compresion test done and if all turns out well I am looking at a NOS kit for it ($641). The mods are what I have done to the car as far as mods. I have no idea what was done mod wise when I bought it from a dealer, as it was already faster than my 98" Turbo I had, when I bought it a 2+ years ago.

your mods were added march 29th. a few days after that question was posted. I also checked your garage and didn't see anything back then... ;)

good luck on the compression numbers.

theres no way a good oem clutch would wear out after a year of driving unless you're riding the clutch

I didn't know that a CAI, headers, and a cat-back exhaust added 50 HP.

hahahahaahaha, good one mfalik. lol. they dont add 50 horsepower. thats just what you add up when you see the little headline of each. "15 PROVEN HP" MAYBE for all of them combined. these mitsus aren't like deisels, you dont put headers and a cai and get 50 horsepower like you would one of those redneck deisals. lol.