Teaching an old dog new tricks

HAY"S NEW 650 CLUTCH PACKAGE SOME trends from way back when are best left as memories. Take the basic clutch, for example, Fifty or so years ago (ancient history, obviously) the “hot setup” clutch package to have was a Borg & Beck or Borg & Beck/Long combination pressure plate, a sprung hub disc and some sort of steel flywheel. The reason for using this combination was pretty good: The old diaphragm pressure plates found behind most GM products (and a select few other cars) offered pretty good pedal feel, but they often had one ugly tendency: The pedal could stick to the floor at wide open throttle. That wasn’t exactly fun. That wasn’t the end of it: Those OEM cast iron flywheels the clutch assemblies were bolted to weren’t exactly a bonus either. The aftermarket combination of choice worked