8v to 16v questions

[scirocco at vintagewatercooleds.com (Eric S)]

Dan,

You must use a clutch disk for your tranny.  The splines are different on
the input shaft of the 16v transmissions versus the 8v, so only a 8v
clutch disk will properly slide onto the input shaft of your FF tranny.

So, to reiterate, the disk itself is the big key here, you must always
match it to your trans.  Also, you'll need to get the larger flywheel to
accomodate the larger 16v pressure plate.  Your engine should have the 190
MM flywheel, and 16vs used 200 or 210 *cant remember for sure*.

-- 
Eric
www.vintagewatercooleds.com

79 VW Iltis
81 Scirocco S (TDI Swap project)
90 Corrado TDI
91 Cabriolet (2.0 Crossflow swap project)

Dan Smith said:
> I know it's a good idea to go with a 16v pressure plate with an 8v clutch
> setup but can I just use a whole 16v clutch setup? As in disk and pressure
> plate? It will be on an FF/FN tranny. Here's the info from the ad of a
> setup I'm looking at:
>
> this is a used 16v race pressure plate, and race 4 puck disk. I bought it
> from Techtonics Tuning. The company that makes it is Kenedy Engineering
> Products (kep) . The pressure plate is tripple banded as shouwn in the
> picture, and is bullet proof! The clutch will hold 250+ hp with no
> problems. The clutch only has about 5-10 thousand miles on it.
>
> Ideally I'll be putting out around 200whp or more if I'm lucky. I'm not
> really planning on racing, mainly I'll be using the car for general
> driving around but have a 2nd car for delivering and more abusive
> conditions.
>
> TIA,
> Dan
>
>
>
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