bandit81
Senior Member
- First Name
- Angelo
- Joined
- Jan 21, 2024
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- Location
- Columbus, Ohio
- Car(s)
- 2024 Type S, 1981 Trans Am (78 clone)
The ITS clutch is absolutely perfect in my opinion.
I always assumed performance cars the clutch engagement is higher up the pedal, but perhaps I am wrong about that? Older mechanical clutch cars as the clutch wears the engagement is further up the pedal - I don't think this is the case with hydraulic clutches today, at least not the case with the throw-out bearing I used in my 81 Trans Am (self adjusting spring constantly keeping the throw-out bearing touching the clutch fingers even as they push out from wear). Mechanical clutch completely disengages the throw-out bearing with the pressure plate's fingers.
In rush hour I would want the ITS over any of the others if that says something.
Rev hang - Seems like every car has it now. I do not notice it with the ITS, but I did notice it with the A-spec, and even more so in the 2019 Si.
Throttle-delay - My 81 Trans Am when I got it running was at first using a freshly rebuilt quadrajet carburetor. Absolutely no throttle delay, when you hit the pedal it was instant neck snapping. Fuel Injection has a hint of a delay in comparison - Some may say I am full of it, but I noticed the difference. A carburetor with mechanical linkage does exactly what you tell it when you tell it without having to pass logic through a computer. With that said, I have replaced the carburetor with a FiTech throttle body, fuel injection and computer controlled timing is just so much easier to live with. All these modern cars have a throttle delay but its much better today than it was 10-20 years ago. Rev-hang= mah; Throttle-delay = suck
- 1996 Saturn SL - heavier than the 2000 Civic EX, ergonomics ok
- 2000 Trans Am with 70k+ miles: heavy but not bad, pickup near the top of the pedal, ergonomically perfect
- 2000 Civic Ex - felt normal (daily driver type quality to it), a lot of pedal movement, engagement was about 1/2 in
- 2006 Pontiac GTO - pretty similar to the 2000 Trans Am
- 2007 Civic Si - What I judge against until now - engagement was higher than normal, lighter feel, ergonomics perfect
- 2019 Civic Si - light, normal engagement, ergonomics good (I expected it to be more like the 2007 Si though)
- 2023 Integra A-spec: light, normal engagement, ergonomics good
- 2024 ITS - The car I now judge against
I always assumed performance cars the clutch engagement is higher up the pedal, but perhaps I am wrong about that? Older mechanical clutch cars as the clutch wears the engagement is further up the pedal - I don't think this is the case with hydraulic clutches today, at least not the case with the throw-out bearing I used in my 81 Trans Am (self adjusting spring constantly keeping the throw-out bearing touching the clutch fingers even as they push out from wear). Mechanical clutch completely disengages the throw-out bearing with the pressure plate's fingers.
In rush hour I would want the ITS over any of the others if that says something.
Rev hang - Seems like every car has it now. I do not notice it with the ITS, but I did notice it with the A-spec, and even more so in the 2019 Si.
Throttle-delay - My 81 Trans Am when I got it running was at first using a freshly rebuilt quadrajet carburetor. Absolutely no throttle delay, when you hit the pedal it was instant neck snapping. Fuel Injection has a hint of a delay in comparison - Some may say I am full of it, but I noticed the difference. A carburetor with mechanical linkage does exactly what you tell it when you tell it without having to pass logic through a computer. With that said, I have replaced the carburetor with a FiTech throttle body, fuel injection and computer controlled timing is just so much easier to live with. All these modern cars have a throttle delay but its much better today than it was 10-20 years ago. Rev-hang= mah; Throttle-delay = suck
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