6 puck clutches vs. others

[Koenigturbo]

Whats up with the 6 puck clucthes? What the difference's and the advantages,and how dose it work compared to regular clutch.? I thought the 6 puck were more for racing and it's gonna give a harsh engagement. It seems backwards that you have less contact area on a 6 puck than a regular clutch.
I have a dual friction clutch.

 

[MKIIINA]

how much power are you making currently? past that find a clutch that works in that range. if you daily drive your car get a full face disc. i have a 6 puck and while it works great and is fine out here in the sticks, last year doing stop and go traffic in dallas it was a bit hard to drive smoothly

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

It takes a long time to get good enough to engage it smoothly. I could get it after awhile but I still wasn't ever consistent. It grips better than the full face but is harsher to your tranny. If you are going to get one get a sprung 6-puck. (Springs around the splines.)

 

[dbsupra90]

the sprung 6 puck bronze disc from hpf is smooth as butter. ive driven other 6 pucks that chatter like no tomorrow.

 

[bountykilla0118]

I love my sprung 6puck ..... It only cost me $115 for a disk

 

[GrimJack]

As has been mentioned, it holds more power but it's a PITA to drive sometimes due to a harsh engagement.

It also doesn't tend to last as long as a full face.

 

[bountykilla0118]

I have about 15,000 miles on mine. I drive in 15miles of stop and go every day but when the roar is open I drive like a dumb ass most of the time ...... At almost every stoplight I see how fast i can get to 50mph and then just cruise

 

[EvoLuTioN]

6-puck clutch isn't that bad, I actually like it, but then again, I learned to drive manual on my supra and with a 6-puck and no power steering =) It's harsh, but when your racing, you can just feel it grab so hard, I love it

 

[bountykilla0118]

I am valet and i cant reallt say that my clutch is not harsh compared to some of the cars i have driven lol ...... Maybe its b/c i have a stock pressure plate :icon_conf

 

[Ckanderson]

I ran 6 puck sprung hubs on ever supra I owned. It's a little harder to drive smoothly, but it really isn't as bad as people make it sound. I ran mine in trafic and everything.

 

[The Reaper]

i had a spec stg 3 in my old 7M car and it was easy driving in stop in go. it wasn't harsh at all. you just need to know how to drive lolol

 

[MK3Brent]

The worst part about sitting in traffic with my RPS clutch is: Slipping it on and off makes it really grippy. The next time you go to move about 10 feet you basically launch the car.

 

[crazysupra2JZ]

stop and go sucks, i've been using one for a month now, i have to rev it higher so it doesn't rattle me car apart. poeple around me don't understand so it makes me look like i don't know what i'm doing. oh yeah, i hate backing up now....it's terrible

 

[thebuddrik]

i know exactly what u mean man. the guy i bought my car did 2 mods, a KnN intake and an atc 6 puck clutch, other than that it is stock. taking off isnt horrible but whenever i back up it chirps sometimes. gets me a lot of funny looks. if i could chose i would take the rps fullface that i had on my other supra. i dont have much power, if i did it might be different.

 

[Koenigturbo]

how much power are you making currently? past that find a clutch that works in that range. if you daily drive your car get a full face disc. i have a 6 puck and while it works great and is fine out here in the sticks, last year doing stop and go traffic in dallas it was a bit hard to drive smoothly

my car is not an daily driver, I only drive it on my days off I'm not going racing either also I'm running very little h.p.....I'm hoping for around 400h.p.
my clutch is dual friction center force clutch

 

[BlackDevilSupra]

What brand / model 6-puck clutch are you using? Typically they are great to handle the engine power that majority of the community achieves, but really SUCKS for longevity and durability.

I have about 15,000 miles on mine. I drive in 15miles of stop and go every day but when the roar is open I drive like a dumb ass most of the time ...... At almost every stoplight I see how fast i can get to 50mph and then just cruise

 

[Koenigturbo]

What brand / model 6-puck clutch are you using? Typically they are great to handle the engine power that majority of the community achieves, but really SUCKS for longevity and durability.

I don't have one, I have center force, dual friction clutch, I was just wondering whats the "lo down" on the 6 puck,.. I like to know how differently do they work from full face, I couldn't understand why a 6 puck would better than a fulll face one when a full face has more surface contact

 

[starscream5000]

They grip more than a full face, I don't really know why, because it would *seem* to make sense that a full face would grip more due to more contact area, but I am by no means a clutch expert.

 

[hottscennessey]

I use an action 6 puck sprung clutch kit from driftmotion. I've put maybe 1000 miles on it and I'm very happy with it. It takes a little time to get used to, at the same time I was getting used to no P/S but now that I'm totally used to it, I can't complain.

It really helps to have crisp throttle response with a 6 puck, so I was reallly anal about getting my throttle response as "crisp" as possible with the stinger. That helped out A LOT.

 

[Syris]

Its going to really depend on who makes the clutch as to what their specifications are on it.