CLUTCH QUESTION

[Snopczynski]

The stock 1973 Yamaha RD350 (street bike with Banshee engine) clutch plates and friction plates are some of the best you can get. The Tusk and EBC clutch kits can blow apart in some of the higher horsepower applications. My engine builder and several of my friends who went to him have all been running the 1973 Yamaha RD350 stuff and never had one problem, and there all running 65hp+ banshees. One of them decided to keep the EBC EP Race Clutch Kit in his machine against my builders warnings after he had it built because the clutch was new and he didn't want to waste it. It ended up blowing apart on his second ride half way up Oldsmobile. I have a brand new Tusk Heavy Duty kit in mine rite now, but after what my builder has told and shown me I am going to take it out and get a street bike clutch (RD350) before my engine work is done.

1973 RD350 Clutch and Friction Plates...It comes out around $130.00 (Not including springs)

 

Cascades clutch is Barnett kevlar fibers, with I think FZ600 steels and toomey springs. They are pretty tough also.

[MILO]

my stock pressure plate had stress cracks all through it when i reworked my clutch. i did put in a hinson basket, but used the tusk kit with new stock inner hub and pressure plate. i always figured for the cost of a new hub and p-plate, i'd change them out with a new clutch kit in the future also. but not on any yearly schedule or anything, just when it started to act up.