In a car the clutch is operated by the left-most pedal using hydraulics or a cable connection from the pedal to the clutch mechanism. Even though the clutch may physically be located very close to the pedal, such remote means of actuation are necessary to eliminate the effect of slight engine movement, engine mountings being flexible by design. more from Wikipedia
In a car's clutch, a flywheel connects to the engine, and a clutch plate connects to the transmission. You can see what this looks like in the figure below. more from how stuff works
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Clutch Kit, Flywheel & Pulley Manufacturers
20/20 Vision, Great Wenham,
Colchester
An extensive and competitively priced range of billet steel
reduced-inertia flywheels Can there be a more cost effective performance
modification? Aluminium pulleys, competition valve guides, brake disc
bells and caliper mounts, developed with the help of constructors and
engine builders.
ACT
Advanced Clutch Technology, INC. (ACT) is a
premier performance clutch kit manufacturer with more than 300 different
applications and 500 performance clutch kits. The company's product line
features clutches and forged flywheels for the most popular vehicles in
the sport compact, domestic and diesel truck market. ACT's performance
clutches and flywheels are used for street or race, including, but not
limited to drag, drift, road and rally racing.
Selecting a clutch to provide the performance, quality and feel a driver
demands can be challenging in today’s market. There are lots of
performance clutch kit options, friction materials and advertising
claims to choose from. ACT has been in the Sport Compact Industry for
over 10 years. ACT products are designed to compliment a vehicles’ drive
train system and engine’s modifications.
Autotech
One of the most overlooked areas for performance improvement is the
drivetrain. Many people disregard clutch and gearbox modifications in
their pursuit for more speed, worrying too much about adding more power,
and too little about applying it.
Autotech can help you decide which drivetrain modifications are right
for you. Whether you're trying to improve your car's highway cruising
economy, or going for all-out performance, we will be your voice of
reason through the entire process. Don't let your car's drivetrain hold
you back. Supercar performance is only a shift away!
Center Force
Centerforce® is proud to be recognized as the leading manufacturer of
performance clutch systems in the United States. The Centerforce era
started in the early 1980’s when Bill Hays, founder of Hays Clutches in
the 1950’s, created the technologies behind Centerforce. Clutches
bearing his name are found on thousands of high performance vehicles
around the world. With the desire to engineer a solution to the
‘sticking over-center problem’ of diaphragm clutches, Bill Hays designed
and patented the Centerforce Weighted Clutch System. His new design
increased pressure plate clamping force while maintaining easy pedal
effort and would not allow the diaphragms tendency to ‘stick
over-center’.
Clutch
Masters
ClutchMasters UK: CPL
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Today, thanks to Clutch Masters, increased holding pressure does not
necessarily mean increased pedal pressure and the problems that can
accompany it. By re-engineering the leverage or fulcrum point on the
pressure plate through their Hi-Leveragetm ttechnique, Clutch
Masters has increased clamping power, often without changing pedal
pressure.
Excessively increased pedal pressure, as found in many of today's traditional high performance clutches, places an unsafe amount of pressure on the delicate crankshaft thrust bearing found in most of today's sport compact automobiles. Placing undue stress on the thrust bearing typically causes the bearing to wear prematurely or fail altogether. This failure can lead to catastrophic internal engine damage.
A clutch, simply put, is a friction device that disengages and engages the engine from the transmission to allow for transition from motionless to movement and for gear changes. For street applications a smooth transition of power is essential while still being able to transfer all the power of the engine to the transmission. As power output of engines increase and demands on clutches become greater - for example high performance street or racing cars - the holding and clamping capacity of a clutch also must increase. This is where Clutch Masters' innovative engineering comes into play.
Exedy UK
More than 50 years ago
EXEDY founder Kazuma Adachi decided to
devote himself to Japan's fledgling automobile industry and began
earnestly working on developing a better clutch. Eventually his efforts
bore fruit in the form of clutch discs which would prevent the transfer
of noise and vibration from drivetrain equipment.
Those clutch discs came to be used by the world's most prominent automakers, establishing the foundation of the present company.
Fidanza
WHY DO YOU OFFER BOTH STEEL AND ALUMINUM FLYWHEELS? – Our steel
flywheels are designed to be some the strongest flywheels on the market.
They are designed to be used where extreme strength is the issue and not
increased performance. Some examples of this would be in rock crawling
vehicles and sand rails. Our aluminum flywheels are also very strong and
will give a tremendous boost in performance without affecting
driveability.
Helix Autosport ltd,
Banbury, Oxon, UK
Helix Autosport has been
manufacturing the most extensive range of high quality performance and
motorsport clutch kits for 14 years, enabling its customers to enjoy
success in all categories from Sebring 12hrs, London-Sydney Rally 2000,
Paris-Dakar Rally 1999-2006, French Rallycross Championship, FIA
European GT Championship, British Off Road Championship production class
2004-2005 and the Peugeot ReCup Series-France. It is now producing
specialised and bespoke clutch and flywheel systems for a variety of
vehicles, with others under development. Helix produce a range from
140mm to 275mm diameter in organic sintered and cerametallic formats.
Quarter Master Ind, USA
Quarter Master Ind design,
manufactures and sells racing performance clutch kits and driveline
components for all types of racing applications from top NASCAR teams to
the weekend warrior It is known for Its excellent customer service and
technical support as well as its make to order capabilities
RPS
Turboclutch Sport Series clutches offer unmatched value. These clutches
are packed with features found in other higher priced units, yet sell
for much less. Sport pressure plates have 150 to 200 pounds of extra
clamping force to hold the power of your mild upgrades.
Spec Clutch
Spec Clutch make a simply massive range of clutches for a huge variety
of cars, more than likely you'll find what you want, no metter how much
power you have
Spec Stage 3 Clutch - For all modified engines making more torque than the stage 2 can support. Maintains stage 2 feel for good daily drivability and offers very good wear characteristics, but provides a higher torque capacity. High clamp pressure plate, composite multi-friction carbon-kevlar material, high torque sprung hub and disc assembly, bearing and tool kit.
Tilton Engineering,
USA
Tilton Engineering is a leading
manufacturer of driveline components, in-cockpit brake controls and
starters for racing and high-performance applications. Driveline
products include clutches (metallic and carbon), flywheels,
bellhousings, concentric slave cylinders and complete driveline
packages. Tilton Brake and Controls (TB&C), a division of Tilton
Engineering, offers a wide range of pedal boxes, master cylinders and
related brake controls
ZF Sachs Race Engineering GmbH, Germany
ZF Sachs Race Engineering, a
subsidiary of the drivetrain and chassis component manufacturer ZF Sachs
AG, established as a legally Independent business in 1998 ZF Sachs Race
Engineering develops, designs, produces and sells dampers and clutches
for use In the following three categories: Sachs Formula
- High end
Motor Sport Sachs Racing -
Motor Sport Matrix Systems, Sachs
Performance -
Tuning products for the road. The
company's three product lines reflect its most important target markets
and realise its goal of consistently redefining the technological limits
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