In a message dated 10/14/00 1:45:08 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
gregmogdoc@surfnetusa.com writes:
<< Thats what scatter shields are for aren't they? At the RPM that most
> production engines turn is truely vintage form, a standard Borg and Beck
> diaphragm clutch is not prone to "blow up failure," at least as far as the
> pressure plate is concerned. The later discs with the non-asbestos lining
> do tend to shed the linning, but the earlier linings were good for in
excess
> of 7,000 rpm in the 8 1/2 " diameter. I think that to many of these "so
> called" safety modifications are really performance enhancements. Vented
> brake rotors in cars that never had them, Tube shock on cars that had
> levers, wheels far wider than were ever legal, gutted interiors to reduce
> the "fire hazard" etc. I do advocate alloy flywheels, they were legal by
> 1967 i believe.
> >>
I built and raced MGAs and MGBs for E and F production in the 60s and 70s.
We fastened plate scattershields to the bell housing, as the GCR required. A
dragracing flexible scattershield was also allowed. I never had or heard of
a smallbore clutch coming sideways through the tunnel, though I saw an Alpine
blow the clutch out the bottom of the bellhousing and scatter vital bits and
fluid all over Blackhawk's main straight.
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