Category Archives: Clutch

Chris teams up with ’57 to win August 22nd B.C. Super Shifters Race!

Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2021 by Roger

We took our Handan Trailer Repair backed ’57 with Chris behind the wheel to the B.C. Super Shifters race at Pacific Raceways on August 21st and 22nd. On Saturday’s race he won a close 1st round vs the sweet ’62 … Continue reading →

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57 TNT at Pacific Raceways on June 2, 2021

Posted on Friday, June 4, 2021 by Roger

We had the Handan Trailer Repair backed ’57 out to Pacific Raceways yesterday for testing. With adjustments for the conditions, Chris had his best run of the evening on a HOT day recording a 10.679 @ 127.21 MPH in our … Continue reading →

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Breaking In Your Clutch

Posted on Friday, November 6, 2020 by Roger

Primarily for street and street/strip cars: THE IMPORTANCE OF CLUTCH BREAK IN EXPLAINED – Ram Clutches – October 29, 2020

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Black Magic Clutches – Interactive Clutch Tuning Podcast with Cale Aronson – April 23, 2020

Posted on Friday, April 24, 2020 by Roger

Excellent clutch tuning webinar by Cale Aronson: Part 1: https://youtu.be/X9KVkxnidDs Part 2: https://youtu.be/RMEmfuvRLio We confirmed by the webinar that we’re not very far off on our clutch settings. When we have the unit rebuilt we’ll lower the base … Continue reading →

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Go through a Pro Stock clutch service with Matt Hartford – NHRA – June 27, 2019

Posted on Thursday, June 27, 2019 by Roger

Courtesy of NHRA: Watch this video on YouTube

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Clutch Testing – August 26th 2017 – Pacific Raceways

Posted on Monday, August 28, 2017 by Roger

Chevy! August 26th 2017: This was our first time out with the new Ram clutch and I will admit there was some anxiety on my part. Did we have our initial settings reasonably close [980 base pressure, 4.3 … Continue reading →

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New Ram Clutch in Store for our ’57 in 2018

Posted on Thursday, July 20, 2017 by Roger

Since 2014 we have had breakage taking our ’57 out of races which we must address. It is clear that our older style Ram clutch with only static pressure adjustment and a very aggressive 6-paddle disc is no longer suited … Continue reading →

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A look at the RAM single disc sintered iron clutch system

Posted on Friday, June 24, 2016 by Roger

A good look at the new Ram clutch which we have considered for future use in our ’57. [Note, we did install this new Ram clutch in the ’57 in late 2017] Our current Ram clutch does not use centrifugal … Continue reading →