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Old 03-07-2011, 01:02 PM
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Excedy/Daikin bonded & riveted Organic plate with +30% clamp diaphragm....Supposed to handle 350 at the flywheel......


At least it's making some power now ha ha!

Edit: just did a calculation based on the following:

Method 1: fixed loss

Method 2: Percentage loss

1) Fixed loss says that no matter how much power is being made, the drivetrain will only absorb soo much. In the WRXs case... its about 62 hp.

2) Assumes that the intial ratio of crank horsepower vs wheel horsepower remains unchanged. In the WRXs case using the 62 hp number from above that equals 27.3% power loss (62/227).

So given that my car makes 282 hub horsepower...

Method 1 says that its making 344 hp @ the crank (282+62).
But with method 2, a car making 282 hub horsepower would be making 359 crank horsepower.

So what do ya do? Is it 344 or is it 359?

Well, I say its neither.... what I do is average the two... makes me feel as if I am not inflating, yet not selling myself short...

344+359=703

703/2= 351.45 at the flywheel

Sound good?

Just over the clutches rated power handling.....DOH!
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