A Clutch for the R34 Build: Finding the Right Fit

One aspect of the R34 build that requires careful consideration is the clutch setup. A clutch is a crucial component that can make or break a car, both physically and metaphorically. Putting a bad clutch in a car can result in a poor driving experience, while a well-suited clutch can enhance the overall performance of the vehicle. When it comes to choosing a clutch for an R34 build, there are several factors to consider, including the power levels being targeted, the type of driving that will be done, and the specific needs of the car.

In this case, the owner has opted for a hybrid setup, which means that they want a clutch that can handle both street driving and occasional launches. After researching different options, the owner decided to go with the billet twin disc clutch from Direct Clutch, a company known for their expertise in custom clutches for high-performance vehicles. The clutch features two discs, one designed for low-speed engagement and another for high-speed performance.

The resulting setup is capable of handling 1100 foot-pounds of torque and 1500 newton meters of power, making it suitable for both street driving and occasional launches. However, the owner has chosen a more aggressive setting to ensure that the clutch can handle the demands of the engine, which will produce significant power. This setup will provide a good balance between comfort and performance, allowing the driver to enjoy the car's capabilities without compromising on drivability.

When choosing a clutch, it's essential to consult with experts who are familiar with the specific chassis and power levels of the vehicle being modified. In this case, the owner consulted with Andrew Hawkins from Mode of DVD, who set them up with the Direct Clutch team. This collaboration allowed the owner to tailor the clutch setup to their specific needs and preferences.

Another crucial aspect of the clutch setup is the transaxle conversion, which has already been completed. The push-pull conversion for the transmission allows for smooth and precise shifting, ensuring that the clutch engages and disengages smoothly without any hesitation or jerkiness. This conversion is a critical component of the overall clutch system, as it enables the driver to focus on driving without worrying about the transmission's performance.

In addition to the clutch setup, other components have been carefully selected to enhance the overall performance and drivability of the R34 build. One such component is the Nismo mount set, which provides a stiff yet vibration-absorbing solution for the engine mounts. These mounts are designed to absorb vibrations while maintaining stiffness, ensuring that the engine remains stable and responsive during driving.

The owner has also opted for the Nismo goodies box, which features several custom components designed to enhance the car's performance and aesthetics. One of these components is a billet transmission mount, which provides additional support and stability to the transmission. This mount helps to reduce vibration and improve overall drivability, making it an essential component of the clutch setup.

In conclusion, finding the right clutch for an R34 build requires careful consideration and collaboration with experts in the field. By choosing a hybrid setup that balances comfort and performance, the owner has created a clutch system that can handle both street driving and occasional launches. With the transaxle conversion and engine mounts carefully selected to enhance drivability, this R34 build is poised to deliver exceptional performance and handling.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys adam ozil here uh for this video i'm super excited there's gonna be some stuff going on that i've been patiently waiting for and that stuff is r34 stuff uh there's been a lot of like little things been coming up here and there and it seems like we haven't gotten that far with the r34 because there's been so much stuff going on with it that is just kind of like a tedious long process to do it right but now we're getting to the fun part today we're gonna pull the engine and we're gonna do the final things that we need to do to put the engine back in it for good so i'm excited that's gonna be probably the content for the next couple days plus the gt350 clutch when that comes back we can get that thing ripping we've got some new settings for the no lift shift with the help of the guys over at healthtech and pvg so that thing will be shifting way better and way faster when you get it back on the road and uh yeah let's pull this engine out of this thing and get started got a couple tasks while the engines out of the car one get heat shields on two get the clutch in three get all the water lines situated on the other side which we were gonna like simplify a lot of that stuff and then we gotta do the trigger kit and we probably mount pulleys and get like the front of the engine all dressed up and get that finalized so we're not doing it in the car and um lift this back in all ready to go so i got this kit a while ago should come with all the lines and fittings that we need a bunch of like little obscure stuff i don't really know how any of it works but i figure after we start like mocking stuff up it'll make sense so the way that this kit works it would actually bolt directly to the heater core with these fittings which are pretty cool and then you would have these coming out but uh i am not super keen on that because to do that we have to pull the dash out and i don't want to break anything in the dash although i guess it wouldn't be that bad since you can still buy new replacement parts um it's going to add a lot more time to the build and i don't really care to have heat i've never really had heat in any of my cars and i don't really use it so i think we'll just simplify that and then simplify stuff here because we're missing one of the fittings that was supposed to come with it that would go into here so instead i think we're just going to bypass the heat all together and you can just basically get a fancy kit for here or like on my r32 if you guys remember on that video i literally just ran a heater hose from here to here but we'll do the nice spinning way here and then it simplifies everything i won't use any of this stuff um and then now we have to figure out the water line situation how we're going to run those for the turbos to simplify that and then clutch and back in the car so instead of running that we're going to figure out some sort of way to run an lines from here and from here and then either create a t or a merge and one i'll just go to the radiator instead of going front and back to the engine it's one of the things that tommy does just because then you're not dumping hot water that's going through the turbo's back in the engine and it goes through the radiator first i'm starting to mock up the prp trigger kit figure now is a good time before we start dressing this thing up so the first thing that needs to be done is grinding this little lip on the noodle oil pump so this can slide on all the way and just kind of clearancing it and making a little bit easier to put the belt on and stuff um so johan's going to do that oh i got more stuff on box i'll go do that unboxing so this i got vapor home by tommy um unfortunately grant was really upset when tommy drove through his lawn and he threw this across the room thinking it was tommy's it actually broke this little ear off grant so the guys over there welded it back up for me and vapor honed it so it looks good now but unfortunately grant trying to sabotage my build freaking grant i think tommy made him do it i really do all right so we cut this yesterday uh got it trained down to clear the the trigger wheel so you slide this on now you got clearance all around next step is to mark this up and clearance this timing cover so that you could remove this in and out and it if not it would ride on that cover so we'll clearance that out once we clearance that then we could install the sensor which goes in in a spot like that there's a small adapter you put on here to space out from that bump and then once all that set we could go ahead and set the timing which would be using the hkx belt and yeah the toronto cover will be done and we could move on to the next thing this morning i started working on this re-thread it this fitting so that it accepts a banjo so that instead of having a straight line coming out of the vault cover for the v cam it's just a banjo and we could shoot this down under the intake and to the oil sandwich plate which will be a lot cleaner than a line coming out across right it just looks better so did that um for future so when we set up the vault covers and put all that on then we don't have to do it then so so if you're wondering why we're all smiling it's uh it's not because i've got this fancy zinc coated piece right here we're about to put the clutch on and it's not that i just got a really great rate and great news from one of the lenders involved in the property it's because mike actually drank colette's last celsius you're so scared and and she doesn't know yet and she's gonna find out when she watches this video she special orders this flavor that's like exotic that you have to buy in like antarctica or some and mike drank the last one and he's shaking right now so the footage oh he's got the new sony who's getting into these games um yeah look at this tommy tommy stole mine but wouldn't admit it so i had to buy this one off him i think i think tommy and grant are sabotaging me in this build i didn't know this thought it went on the terrible side yeah it doesn't make sense how would that work mommy is that a single turbo car oh this are this r32 specific no i'll read 30. um okay there you go no that's not it no that's the hope for the dress show so are you going to be able to do this here or bam look at that yeah i feel like now is an appropriate time to talk about the clutch oh you better watch that one oh god she doesn't know yet i'm shaking something very unfortunate we made a very uncalculated move we all thought about it but he went for it what take again it's right in front of you it's literally right in front of you it's on your hands no not that one that's that was a different one what i was refused wait what did um it's not a big deal you can just go to publix and get one right if you smash the camera i'll buy a new one all right so one thing that i haven't discussed anything about in regards to this r34 build is the clutch now you know we kind of go into a lot of detail with the clutch setups for different cars because quite literally a clutch will make or break a build um both physically and metaphorically because if you put a bad clutch in a car i've had many different vehicles where i've put way too aggressive of a clutch in and it's felt like junk and i never want to drive it if you put one in too soft you end up burning it up and you have a bad time because you have to pull the drivetrain and then physically if you put too gnarly of a clutch in a car you can end up breaking drivetrain components so some cars would go with softer clutches some cars would go with stiffer ones but the best thing that i always recommend is to talk to people that are the most familiar with the chassis that you're doing and the power levels that you're going after so i spoke to andrew hawkins down in australia mode of dvd he set me up with the guys from direct clutch and this right here is their name so cool looking billet twinnest clutch so when i spoke with those guys they kind of went over a lot of different options that they had i told them my goals with the car and that i did you know maybe plan on doing a few launches here or there but this isn't a drag car i don't want to do multiple back to back sub 10 second passes so it's kind of a hybrid setup you can see there's two different discs in there and it's good to hold i think it's about 1100 foot-pounds of torque 1500 newton meters but it'll be very street friendly and drivable and it'll be a comfortable car to drive because i'd like this to be a bit easier driving the evo the evo's got like pretty gnarly twin disc where like like you were driving the other day it's really really bitey where i'm assuming one of these discs will have a bit more slip to it so i'm pumped on this we already have their push-pull conversion on the trans which we can show you a little bit more in detail but this is a sick looking unit and this did come from australia as well um they've got a lot of clutches and andrews cars other crazy fast rb's seven second dumb fast cars drift cars and they know about the rb so i went with them for this build so this i mean i obviously don't know the exact materials so that's what's going to give us all the bite and then this is what's going to give us like the drivability feel damn everything looks machine so nice i love when it gets like a little rainbow effect to it yeah my box will nismo goodies uh love these i run these on my sr car i run these on my r32 the nismo mounts are like a stiffer reinforced version of the stock mounts you gotta be careful though because i think with the sr it actually raises the engine a little bit and you can run into hood clearance issues but by far my favorite engine mounts they absorb vibration really well so it still kind of feels like a nice stock car you know a bunch of weird vibrations um but they're stiff enough to where you when you're making more power the engine doesn't move too much so just literally direct replacements nothing fancy i already swapped that one on that side um yeah i love these things look at that that's a good boy trans gets the same thing you think i could put these on yahoo auctions japan and like label some rare thing and tommy you will buy them yeah say like one of eight it smells like 94. yeah dude everything's been going wrong dude look let's just go on the floor we're doing it on the floor just like when we were poor brother yeah we got all these lips tools and equipment but no am i even doing this part yo imagine imagine imagine do you want to go down on the table are you going to go up and make a sling take two all right guys that's gonna be it for this video come tomorrow um we actually have the new clutch for monster for the barra so we're going to put the bear mustang back together so that thing can be driven and when freddy's in time we can work on the nolah shift more um and we'll do some more on this got some more stuff due to the engine bay a few minor things to do on the engine but uh this is we're finally getting to the home stretch hope you guys are excited we'll see you soon she sees this it's not a big deal you can just go to publix to get one right do it get away knows you likewhat's up guys adam ozil here uh for this video i'm super excited there's gonna be some stuff going on that i've been patiently waiting for and that stuff is r34 stuff uh there's been a lot of like little things been coming up here and there and it seems like we haven't gotten that far with the r34 because there's been so much stuff going on with it that is just kind of like a tedious long process to do it right but now we're getting to the fun part today we're gonna pull the engine and we're gonna do the final things that we need to do to put the engine back in it for good so i'm excited that's gonna be probably the content for the next couple days plus the gt350 clutch when that comes back we can get that thing ripping we've got some new settings for the no lift shift with the help of the guys over at healthtech and pvg so that thing will be shifting way better and way faster when you get it back on the road and uh yeah let's pull this engine out of this thing and get started got a couple tasks while the engines out of the car one get heat shields on two get the clutch in three get all the water lines situated on the other side which we were gonna like simplify a lot of that stuff and then we gotta do the trigger kit and we probably mount pulleys and get like the front of the engine all dressed up and get that finalized so we're not doing it in the car and um lift this back in all ready to go so i got this kit a while ago should come with all the lines and fittings that we need a bunch of like little obscure stuff i don't really know how any of it works but i figure after we start like mocking stuff up it'll make sense so the way that this kit works it would actually bolt directly to the heater core with these fittings which are pretty cool and then you would have these coming out but uh i am not super keen on that because to do that we have to pull the dash out and i don't want to break anything in the dash although i guess it wouldn't be that bad since you can still buy new replacement parts um it's going to add a lot more time to the build and i don't really care to have heat i've never really had heat in any of my cars and i don't really use it so i think we'll just simplify that and then simplify stuff here because we're missing one of the fittings that was supposed to come with it that would go into here so instead i think we're just going to bypass the heat all together and you can just basically get a fancy kit for here or like on my r32 if you guys remember on that video i literally just ran a heater hose from here to here but we'll do the nice spinning way here and then it simplifies everything i won't use any of this stuff um and then now we have to figure out the water line situation how we're going to run those for the turbos to simplify that and then clutch and back in the car so instead of running that we're going to figure out some sort of way to run an lines from here and from here and then either create a t or a merge and one i'll just go to the radiator instead of going front and back to the engine it's one of the things that tommy does just because then you're not dumping hot water that's going through the turbo's back in the engine and it goes through the radiator first i'm starting to mock up the prp trigger kit figure now is a good time before we start dressing this thing up so the first thing that needs to be done is grinding this little lip on the noodle oil pump so this can slide on all the way and just kind of clearancing it and making a little bit easier to put the belt on and stuff um so johan's going to do that oh i got more stuff on box i'll go do that unboxing so this i got vapor home by tommy um unfortunately grant was really upset when tommy drove through his lawn and he threw this across the room thinking it was tommy's it actually broke this little ear off grant so the guys over there welded it back up for me and vapor honed it so it looks good now but unfortunately grant trying to sabotage my build freaking grant i think tommy made him do it i really do all right so we cut this yesterday uh got it trained down to clear the the trigger wheel so you slide this on now you got clearance all around next step is to mark this up and clearance this timing cover so that you could remove this in and out and it if not it would ride on that cover so we'll clearance that out once we clearance that then we could install the sensor which goes in in a spot like that there's a small adapter you put on here to space out from that bump and then once all that set we could go ahead and set the timing which would be using the hkx belt and yeah the toronto cover will be done and we could move on to the next thing this morning i started working on this re-thread it this fitting so that it accepts a banjo so that instead of having a straight line coming out of the vault cover for the v cam it's just a banjo and we could shoot this down under the intake and to the oil sandwich plate which will be a lot cleaner than a line coming out across right it just looks better so did that um for future so when we set up the vault covers and put all that on then we don't have to do it then so so if you're wondering why we're all smiling it's uh it's not because i've got this fancy zinc coated piece right here we're about to put the clutch on and it's not that i just got a really great rate and great news from one of the lenders involved in the property it's because mike actually drank colette's last celsius you're so scared and and she doesn't know yet and she's gonna find out when she watches this video she special orders this flavor that's like exotic that you have to buy in like antarctica or some and mike drank the last one and he's shaking right now so the footage oh he's got the new sony who's getting into these games um yeah look at this tommy tommy stole mine but wouldn't admit it so i had to buy this one off him i think i think tommy and grant are sabotaging me in this build i didn't know this thought it went on the terrible side yeah it doesn't make sense how would that work mommy is that a single turbo car oh this are this r32 specific no i'll read 30. um okay there you go no that's not it no that's the hope for the dress show so are you going to be able to do this here or bam look at that yeah i feel like now is an appropriate time to talk about the clutch oh you better watch that one oh god she doesn't know yet i'm shaking something very unfortunate we made a very uncalculated move we all thought about it but he went for it what take again it's right in front of you it's literally right in front of you it's on your hands no not that one that's that was a different one what i was refused wait what did um it's not a big deal you can just go to publix and get one right if you smash the camera i'll buy a new one all right so one thing that i haven't discussed anything about in regards to this r34 build is the clutch now you know we kind of go into a lot of detail with the clutch setups for different cars because quite literally a clutch will make or break a build um both physically and metaphorically because if you put a bad clutch in a car i've had many different vehicles where i've put way too aggressive of a clutch in and it's felt like junk and i never want to drive it if you put one in too soft you end up burning it up and you have a bad time because you have to pull the drivetrain and then physically if you put too gnarly of a clutch in a car you can end up breaking drivetrain components so some cars would go with softer clutches some cars would go with stiffer ones but the best thing that i always recommend is to talk to people that are the most familiar with the chassis that you're doing and the power levels that you're going after so i spoke to andrew hawkins down in australia mode of dvd he set me up with the guys from direct clutch and this right here is their name so cool looking billet twinnest clutch so when i spoke with those guys they kind of went over a lot of different options that they had i told them my goals with the car and that i did you know maybe plan on doing a few launches here or there but this isn't a drag car i don't want to do multiple back to back sub 10 second passes so it's kind of a hybrid setup you can see there's two different discs in there and it's good to hold i think it's about 1100 foot-pounds of torque 1500 newton meters but it'll be very street friendly and drivable and it'll be a comfortable car to drive because i'd like this to be a bit easier driving the evo the evo's got like pretty gnarly twin disc where like like you were driving the other day it's really really bitey where i'm assuming one of these discs will have a bit more slip to it so i'm pumped on this we already have their push-pull conversion on the trans which we can show you a little bit more in detail but this is a sick looking unit and this did come from australia as well um they've got a lot of clutches and andrews cars other crazy fast rb's seven second dumb fast cars drift cars and they know about the rb so i went with them for this build so this i mean i obviously don't know the exact materials so that's what's going to give us all the bite and then this is what's going to give us like the drivability feel damn everything looks machine so nice i love when it gets like a little rainbow effect to it yeah my box will nismo goodies uh love these i run these on my sr car i run these on my r32 the nismo mounts are like a stiffer reinforced version of the stock mounts you gotta be careful though because i think with the sr it actually raises the engine a little bit and you can run into hood clearance issues but by far my favorite engine mounts they absorb vibration really well so it still kind of feels like a nice stock car you know a bunch of weird vibrations um but they're stiff enough to where you when you're making more power the engine doesn't move too much so just literally direct replacements nothing fancy i already swapped that one on that side um yeah i love these things look at that that's a good boy trans gets the same thing you think i could put these on yahoo auctions japan and like label some rare thing and tommy you will buy them yeah say like one of eight it smells like 94. yeah dude everything's been going wrong dude look let's just go on the floor we're doing it on the floor just like when we were poor brother yeah we got all these lips tools and equipment but no am i even doing this part yo imagine imagine imagine do you want to go down on the table are you going to go up and make a sling take two all right guys that's gonna be it for this video come tomorrow um we actually have the new clutch for monster for the barra so we're going to put the bear mustang back together so that thing can be driven and when freddy's in time we can work on the nolah shift more um and we'll do some more on this got some more stuff due to the engine bay a few minor things to do on the engine but uh this is we're finally getting to the home stretch hope you guys are excited we'll see you soon she sees this it's not a big deal you can just go to publix to get one right do it get away knows you like\n"