OEM clutch is Excedy or Blueprint?

[Crazylegs]

but then you will just over charge on delivery making it redundant...

Ha ha ha!!

 

[dc55_11]

I must be going mad, but I thought the Exedy and Honda clutches are exactly the same apart from release baring, as Exedy do the clutches for Honda anyways? Either way I recently installed a Stage 1 Exedy clutch from Tom at TGM and it has been perfect ! Done well over 10k on it and no issues whatsoever

 

[Benneh]

Out of interest, what's the stage 1 like for normal driving?

 

[integraleo]

I asked romain this at eurospec the other week and he actually said even a stage 4 isn't much different in terms of feel. Said it's still quite light.

 

[k20-outlaw]

I'm pretty sure a stage 4 will be stiffer and snappier than an oem style clutch, more like an on off switch than the progressive oem clutch.

 

[dc55_11]

In my case there was a substantial difference between the oem clutch and Stage 1. The pedal was much firmer and also would spring back a lot quicker almost kicking your foot backwards. After getting used to that it meant much quicker gear changes.But there is a definite difference between the two, you get used to it though and its fine for normal everyday driving

 

[Crazylegs]

A lot of people on here say there's no need to go uprated unless you're running upwards of 300bhp.

I had a 150bhp CRX running an uprated Excedy clutch and I loved it. Was a bit harder to press especially at low revs and smelt of eggs but at speed the gear changes were lovely, zero crunches. Gear changes just felt so much nicer.

Looking at prices, uprated clutches aren't that much more expensive than OEM.