I did a clutch swap recently and found out the hard way there is a lot more to this than simply bolting everything in and calling it good. Although that is exactly what I did the first time. I simply had the flywheel machined and put in a Centerforce clutch. I threw it back together and I had to smash the clutch into the floor to get it to shift.
Turns out, the flywheel machining meant the pivot ball needed to be replaced with an adjustible pivot. The CF clutch I chose was .250 shorter than my earlier Ram clutch so I ended up using a McLoed adjustible height throwout bearing to make up the difference. I also used adjustible dowel pins to dial in my bellhousing to .001 (which took forever BTW) but my trans now goes in like butter and shifts like it too.
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71 Formula 433, Splayed cap 400 block, 4" stroke Scat forged crank, 6.8 Eagle rods, custom Autotec pistons. SD 295 KRE D ports, Old faithful hybrid roller, Torker II, Holley Sniper Stealth, Tribal Tubes, TKO 600, 3.73 Eaton posi.
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