MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Modifications & Technical Area => Performance Modifications => Topic started by: colesey on July 14, 2017, 04:13:18 pm

Title: Clutch torque capacity
Post by: colesey on July 14, 2017, 04:13:18 pm

How much torque can the standard clutch reliably cope with? I appreciate the answer will vary according to age of clutch / life it has had / aggressiveness of spool up etc but am looking for some real life examples of what people are experiencing. How does it cope for example with stage 2+ with a k03?!?

Title: Re: Clutch torque capacity
Post by: Scottymon on July 14, 2017, 05:12:34 pm

I went Stage 1 at around 80k and it was fine... I went stage 2 around 120k and it slipped a bit, but it drove ok if you didn't boot it from low revs. This was on a spikey " off the shelf " map though, there are much better linear custom maps from the likes of rtech that will give you all the power and torque but not in a fashion to destroy the clutch and tyres.

As you rightly point out, it varies wildy  :happy2:

Title: Re: Clutch torque capacity
Post by: hicksyyy on July 14, 2017, 05:42:30 pm

asked the same question not that long ago and got some good info . http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=112827.0

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