I would realy appreciate some pictures. This area is very new to me and is something I would like to tackle in the next couple of years. rogeredens@yahoo.com use Honda in subject line
Thanks,
Roger

By Lemke (4.188.254.20) on Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 09:40 am:

Jim-

Also remember that the auto ring gear is a larger diameter than the manual ring gear... may or may not be a problem. My gear box has 2 holes for one of the starter bolts so the starter can pivot to accept the larger diameter auto ring gear when that combo is used. The splines for my input shaft are 13/16" x 9, which is stock. Definitely send me some pics...

By Jim Hargrove (Jimhanalytic) (24.83.72.224) on Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 08:54 am:

Hi John,

Thanks for the feedback. Jamie is making the flywheel for us. Kyle got me a torque converter, and my impression was that the bolt-on ring gear would be easy to attach to an aluminum plate that bolts either to the tilton clutch or to the button flywheel. That's how Jamie attached the ring gear on his CRX. I actually have two Mugen clutch/flywheel sets, but the reason we are switching to the 5.5" Tilton is to reduce the MOI (free horsepower). Also Jamie will use a north american spline on the input shaft of the transmission, so clutch discs are easier to get. Both Tilton and Quartermaster have a reputation for stripping splines on their custom metric clutch discs, but are dead reliable with standard splines. Any photo's of your setup would be appreciated, email them to me directly, and I'll do the same.

Regards,
Jim

By Lemke (4.189.80.235) on Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 07:18 pm:

Jim-

I've already been down this road...
Unfortunately, there is no flex plate on an auto gear box, the ring gear bolts to the torque converter... What I have done is machined the living daylights out of a stock flywheel, and used a replaceable thru-bolt friction surface (heat shield) Tilton part# 350-617. The ring gear on a stock manual flywheel does come off... just heat it up, and gently knock it off. I have a CAD drawing for an aluminum flywheel, but I'm working on the original steel design so far... I'll send some pics as soon as I take them.

By Kyle Thomson (24.83.12.187) on Monday, January 03, 2005 - 11:00 pm:

My email address for race updates, kylethomson69 @ hotmail.com (no spaces of course)

By Jim Hargrove (Jimhanalytic) (24.83.72.224) on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 10:31 am:

Kyle,

Thats the right car. We are trying to make it to the runoffs this year, so any help is greatly appreciated.

I'll call you over the weekend to make arrangements to pick it up.

Jim

By Kyle Thomson (24.83.12.187) on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 07:16 pm:

I've got one you can have, I'm in burnaby

Are you the guy with the black/red civic that was in a shop right off the second narrows bridge? If thats you, and your cars still there, I could drop it off on my way to work tomorrow. Call me at 604-723-0967 and let me know, as I still have to take it off the motor

By Jim Hargrove (Jimhanalytic) (24.83.72.224) on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 01:05 pm:

We are making a racing clutch/flywheel for my '76 GTL Honda Civic. Tilton single plate 5.5" cerametalic clutch/disc on a 6.5" (approx) steel button flywheel. I need to figure out how to attach a ring gear. One idea is to use the flexplate from an automatic civic (up to '82 civic 1300 should work) and machine it to fit onto the flywheel or to bolt to the back of the clutch.

Does anyone know where I can find a flexplate for a 1200 or 1300 civic in the Vancouver, BC area?

Does anyone have a different suggestion for attaching a ring gear?

Thanks,

Jim Hargrove.

ps. GTL is the new name for the combined GT4 and GT5 class