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Originally Posted by customfab87

Highly Recommended! I always wondered why the car felt like it was responding to very stiff diaphragm springs, yet the clutch return travel had no feel. I have owned about a dozen stickshift cars over the past 10 years, with stock to 6-pucks, and have never had a clutch be so soft, vague, and jerk the car so much. LOL. Although the pedal is a little stiff now, I can completely feel the action of the springs, which helps when you're feathering a non-responsive electronic throttle! No more stalling EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I found the easiest way to remove the C Clip is to take a small flat head, stick it into the middle of the "C", and push away from the rod. If you try to push on the ends of the "C", you'll just keep rotating the clip and get annoyed. Easiest way to remove the spring, as others have said, is to push the clutch in all the way to relieve compression on the spring, and then to push the spring away from you. It should pop right out.

I would compare the stiffness to an ACT HD Street clutch.

I may end up looking for a very weak helper spring (I've seen compression springs at Home Depot and Auto Parts Stores) if the stiffness gets annoying in LA traffic. I think the stiffness is something easy to get used to. Plus it prevents me from holding down the clutch and putting wear on the bearings!

Thanks for the tips. It only took 15mins! This may be the best 15mins of car work I've spent. I can tell where the clutch is engaging now instead of a guessing game of if the spring rotating is the clutch grabbing or if the clutch is actually grabbing. Only slightly heavier feel. Not to the level of a stonger aftermarket street clutch. I need to have everyone drive my car now to see how much different it is since I also just put in the TRD quick shifter, which shortened the throws drastically, much more than the much more expensive Kartboy shifter.