I just now broke in my Z and want to start modding. I already know that I want Nismo cams, intake (JWT, K&N CAI, or Gruppe M) Fuji y-pip and exhaust, Crawford headers and cats (or other recomendations), Kinetix plenum and other various items. I was wondering if the Tilton flywheel/clutch combo to much for a daily driver?, or would anyone recomend something else?. Thank you.

 

anyone?

 

It just takes a while to get used to. Hills are not fun though, I still just dump the clutch on a very steep incline if I have a car behind me. It does make some squeaking noise when letting the clutch out in gear. But it revs like no other car I have heard and I dynoed at 265 at the wheels with it, Borla TD, Jwt popcharger, and crank pulley. I do daily drive mine.

 

you would love it if you ran with it... but... you will hate it just the same... It all depends on the type of drive you are...

I absolutly love mine... and I know JoeNismo will be loving his even more soon...

I also daily drive my car.. I have had over 14000 miles on my tilton so far...

I have posted many threads and reviews with it...

Please feel free to contact me if you would like to talk about it... I can call you and tell you more about it if you dont feel you got enough out of my other threads about it...

Jason

 

Well I just looked threw all your post and reviews on this combo, and I could not hear the chattering or the cement mixer sound you were talking about, so I guess the sound cant be that bad. Do you have any videos of the sound outside of the car?. And I also saw (I could be wrong) that you were working with someone on a better or different clutch for street driving, could you give any info on that?. I did love how the RPMs dropped when you got off the gas thoe and how fast it would jump when you got on it. How much did your 0-60 times improve, if you could say ?. Thank you

 

The cement mixer sound at idle is not bad at all, for me. You do have to understand that these things are all based upon opinions. I really like mine and I am glad I chose this flywheel/clutch setup over the others. I mean if you are going to do it, might as well go all out right. You won't be disappointed.

 

JoeNismo has the updated clutch for street driving... if he wants to give his review he can post it...

but it is 100000times improvement over what it ws before... it can be slightly slipped... next step would be to a carbon carbon clutch...

 

drudacris27, it's not a great idea for 0-60 times since launching is difficult.

 

yeah.. forgot to mention that

but 60-100 in a car with a tilton and no other mods and a car with alot of NA mods... the tilton will be watching the other car in its rear view...

 

It is funny because I did post a whole review but only had one response. I will bring it to the top for you drudacris27.

 

I know I've probably been asking too many questions already, but I like to do alot of reasearch befor guying. How hard is it to launch with the tilton (RPMs, Feathering, all that good stuff)? Thanks Again Everyone

Thanks Joenismo for bringing it up


Ohh and Jason, follow up on your quote of the day...It could be carried by an African swallow!

 

It really isn't hard at all to launch. In fact I think it launches just as well. The flywheel is lightweight so it doesn't add as much momentum to the motor. This helps when I launch at about 2250 rpm it doesn't tend to spin the tires as bad. Also when shifting between 1st and 2nd I used to be able to spin my tires for quite a while(with old setup). Now I don't spin as badly between 1st and 2nd because there is less weight adding to the momentum of the engine. I think this is a good thing because spinning the tires was just a wasted motion. Now at the drag strip it was another story, I did have a real hard time launching, I think I just need more practice there.

 

Ah yes but the coconut's tropical...

 

Anybody ran the Tilton FW at 130mph plus? Does the engine having less momentum cause the Z to pull less at speeds these high? Does that make sense? At say 135-140 where you are almost redlining 5th, would a Tilton eqiupped car get pulled by a stock FW Z because the heavier FW is helping the car keep its momentum? Get what I'm saying...Jason can you let me know? TIA

 

The car pulls harder from 100-150 then a car that has a stock flywheel & clutch...

but when you lift off the throttle at high speeds or low speeds and the car is in gear the car slows down faster.. which is very helpful on a race track...

 

We've had my car well over 140mph. This is what prompted installing the Nismo gauge cluster. Now I have a speedo that goes to 180. It was still pulling but we had to slow down for traffic.

 

Thanks Jason thats what I wanted to hear. Im at almost 33k on the stock clutch, and I can feel it doesnt grab as hard as new. I'll get a hold of you guys when the times comes for clutch/fw....on a side note. if you had a customer with a Tilton clutch/fw, and he was having grinding problems with 3rd gear like many Z's have, would your dealer void his warranty cuz his clutch or would they replace the tranny. I'm on my 2nd tranny and I dont want to put in a clutch/fw and have it go bad after and be stuck with having ot get a new tranny you know...oh well you pay to play.

 

I have never once seen a Z with any grinding problem with any aftermarket flywheel.... even the NISMO flywheel will get rid of that grind...

 

How long do you think the Tilton "street" setup will last as a daily driver? Should it last longer than a traditional single disk setup?

 

I had my original one in for just over 18000 miles and it still had a ton of life on it...

and I do not believe I mentioned this before... but.. you can have the Tilton Flywheel re-surfaced, and the pressure plate remanufactured for a minimal cost from Tilton