Just finished everything up today. We installed the UUC motor mounts and trans mounts that have been in my sig for almost a year :duck: and put in the Fidanza twin disk 6.5 kit from Adam at LSX Performance. Also got my new Yoko Advan Neova AD08s mounted.
As I said in an earlier post, the Fidanza looks like a quality piece. The shop "bench built" it ahead of time to make sure they understood everything fit wise. The install is pretty straight forward. The kit had everything required except the spacer bolts which I understand will be provided in the future kits. The jap trans fluid (Enos?) is good stuff and you can feel the difference with this synthetic. The remote bleeder valve is long enough to stretch around the world twice. I wound up tie straping it up top in the center of the fire wall near the intake manifold until I figure something out.
Now for the good part. The clutch is everything I expected. Pedal effort is only slightly stiffer than stock. There is absolutely no noise coming from the twin when the car is stationary at idle that I can hear at all (a previous trademark of a twin with a floater plate). The engagement seems to be a little lower than stock. When I first backed the car off the lift, I was trying to slip the clutch a bit to much not knowiing what to expect. Engagement is quick but the strange thing is that the lurch is not there. In 10 minutes I could drive this clutch without my passenger feeling the shifts if I chose to drive it smoothly. Shift it fast and it just grabs and hooks up smoothly and positive like a Porsche PDK set up. ( I drove the Audi version of this and they feel kind of similar engagement wise). Make no mistake this is a performance clutch and it will appeal to the more skillful, but it is completely accepatable as a daily driver in my opinion. This is what will feel strange at first.
1) With 40 lbs out of the drive train the car will bounce of the rev limiter in a flash. Watch the tach until you get used to it. The car feels 500 lbs lighter.
2) This clutch can be driven pretty smooth without slipping it. In fact I don't think it likes to be slipped that much The trick is to find the place and the speed to release the pedal. It takes only a short time to get used to it. You don't need to give it the beans to take off smoothly from a stop. I always wondered if this is because the first disk engages slightly faster than the second.
3) Engagement is quick and solid. Those pregnant pauses you used to do to wait for the revs to collapse so you can shift smoother are gone. You can shift faster not harder.
Since my V now has a more lighter and more solid drive train (thanks Luke and UUC), the car is really alot more fun to drive. The UUC mounts are awesome. I had some concerns about reports we were getting on vibration. I honestly cannot tell any difference from stock. Now, I am "weak sauce" because my motor mounts look perfect after 31k and my megadeath dual mass clutch looked like it could go another 30K easily, so I'm coming from a car that was pretty solid to begin with. All in all I am not disappointed so far with the Fidanza twin or the UUC mounts. If it stays like it was the first day I drove it, I would highly recommend it.
PS The Yokos are a game changer over my F1 runflats. The car rides like a dream. I haven't pushed them yet but I hope they are all that they say they are.
As I said in an earlier post, the Fidanza looks like a quality piece. The shop "bench built" it ahead of time to make sure they understood everything fit wise. The install is pretty straight forward. The kit had everything required except the spacer bolts which I understand will be provided in the future kits. The jap trans fluid (Enos?) is good stuff and you can feel the difference with this synthetic. The remote bleeder valve is long enough to stretch around the world twice. I wound up tie straping it up top in the center of the fire wall near the intake manifold until I figure something out.
Now for the good part. The clutch is everything I expected. Pedal effort is only slightly stiffer than stock. There is absolutely no noise coming from the twin when the car is stationary at idle that I can hear at all (a previous trademark of a twin with a floater plate). The engagement seems to be a little lower than stock. When I first backed the car off the lift, I was trying to slip the clutch a bit to much not knowiing what to expect. Engagement is quick but the strange thing is that the lurch is not there. In 10 minutes I could drive this clutch without my passenger feeling the shifts if I chose to drive it smoothly. Shift it fast and it just grabs and hooks up smoothly and positive like a Porsche PDK set up. ( I drove the Audi version of this and they feel kind of similar engagement wise). Make no mistake this is a performance clutch and it will appeal to the more skillful, but it is completely accepatable as a daily driver in my opinion. This is what will feel strange at first.
1) With 40 lbs out of the drive train the car will bounce of the rev limiter in a flash. Watch the tach until you get used to it. The car feels 500 lbs lighter.
2) This clutch can be driven pretty smooth without slipping it. In fact I don't think it likes to be slipped that much The trick is to find the place and the speed to release the pedal. It takes only a short time to get used to it. You don't need to give it the beans to take off smoothly from a stop. I always wondered if this is because the first disk engages slightly faster than the second.
3) Engagement is quick and solid. Those pregnant pauses you used to do to wait for the revs to collapse so you can shift smoother are gone. You can shift faster not harder.
Since my V now has a more lighter and more solid drive train (thanks Luke and UUC), the car is really alot more fun to drive. The UUC mounts are awesome. I had some concerns about reports we were getting on vibration. I honestly cannot tell any difference from stock. Now, I am "weak sauce" because my motor mounts look perfect after 31k and my megadeath dual mass clutch looked like it could go another 30K easily, so I'm coming from a car that was pretty solid to begin with. All in all I am not disappointed so far with the Fidanza twin or the UUC mounts. If it stays like it was the first day I drove it, I would highly recommend it.
PS The Yokos are a game changer over my F1 runflats. The car rides like a dream. I haven't pushed them yet but I hope they are all that they say they are.