ChefJ

I got my competition ironman clutch and it looks as if it came with the OEM pressure plate?? Anyone else with this kit give me a little info on what came in yours and whether or not Honda was stamped on your PP.

Slows2k

Many Aftermarket clutches are built from OEM pressure plates. ACT, Competition, Clutchmasters, etc.

camuman

i dont beleive clutchmasters uses stock reworked pressure plates. act yes, apparently competition clutch too, but not clutchmasters.

Slows2k

I've installed one that was clearly built on a OEM pressure plate.

ChefJ

Its stamped with the exact stams from my OEM 2001 clutch. I am assuming that they hardened it in some way. I wrote there tech department and may just drive over there as they are located in Conyers GA about a half hour from me. I will post up whatever info I find.

NFRTurboTerror

I asked ACT the same question when i got my clutch. The response i got was basically the pressure plate for the s2000 was so diffrent from the way others are made that it was cheaper to buy a stock pressure plate and replace certian parts with upgraded parts than it was for them to make one from scratch.

ACTman

The reason why ACT, CM, CC, CF, Spec, etc modify stock clutches is simple. The tooling to make the stamped cover alone is very expensive (generally well over $100,000) but once the tooling is done, the stampings are relatively cheap to produce. To warrant such an investment, there has to be a very high expected volume of sales. In most cases the tooling is planned for in cooperation/contract with the automaker of a new model vehicle. Even the large OE clutch manufactures such as Valeo, Sachs, Exedy, LUK, Aisin, etc buy from eachother to complete their clutch line when selling to the standard replacement market. Considering that standard replacement market is many times larger than the performance aftermarket it makes even less sense for companies like us.

There are rare cases where it does make sense. When the stock part is inferior, restrictive in design or very expensive it may make sense to tool up with a replacement. That is precisely what we did in the case of our Integra pressure plate for example and we now stamp our own covers. But in the case of the S2K, the design (especially the cover stamping) is simple, fairly troublefree, and relatively low volume so there is no incentive to buy tooling.

To avoid high tooling costs, there is also the option of machining the cover from aluminum but the material and machining costs are much higher per part. Since the stock S2K pressure plate is pretty expensive, we have considered going that route. It would have a higher percieved value due to the cool anodized finish. But in this case an machined aluminum cover actually wouldn't add anything to the performance of the pressure plate. PM if you have any questions.

camuman

nm, slows2k is right. reworked oem peices.