A few weeks ago, I was driving home from work and when I shifted from 1st to 2nd, I heard a pop. Then when from 2nd to 3rd, my clutch pedel went all the way to the floor and didn't come back up!

Sure enough...a $9 pivot bolt snapped in half. I had to remove the trans to replace this poorley manufactured bolt (dozens of threads on this site about this). At 70,000 miles, I figured my clutch would soon be on its way out (but had NO problems, slippage, etc. with it--except for the clutch chatter).

I'm already paying to have the trans pulled out, so I ordered a Clutchmasters stage III clutch and alum. flywheel. While the car was at the garage, I ordered new Brembo slotted rotors front and back with new pads (rotors had 70,000 miles on them and pads had 40,000)!!! The brakes just started to squeek, but I never had any pulsation, etc...rotors were shot.

Attached are just a few pics that I took during the install. I accidently deleted the Brembo brake install pictures. Warning to anybody changing out their clutch....CHANGE YOUR PIVOT BOLT TOO!!! ~~~I didn't have time to resize pics or add captions, so sorry for the mess.

 

Some more pics

 

...and some more

 

looks good congrats on the new clutch

 

yo how much did u pay for the rotors...mine are almost shot and ive been looking at the stoptech stage 2 kit that includes hawk pads, slotted rotors, braided brake lines and brake fluid for around 700...

 

dumag35: drop me a PM and I will get you some pricing on that kit! Dont pay $700 please!

Nice pix! you really cleaned up the back of the engine! Im sure that clutch grabs pretty quickly... Just dont slip that clutch much or it wont last long!

 

hey congrats on the new clutch...I'm getting a new clutch on the car on Monday and I'll be replacing that bolt...thanx for letting us know!

 

I actually got my brembo pads from jason@riverside, and got a great deal. I would say if you have Brembo now, keep them. If regular OEM, then the upgrade to stoptech would be worth it.