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mine is an early 85 this car is I believe an 89 so I'm not sure if you may have a newer style clutch.
since I read about the rubber center clutches failing due to the rubber aging out. and also seeing pretty extreme pricing even just for the clutch friction plate itself. I have been wondering if there is an aftermarket alternative, especially one with springs instead of this rubber idea. I did find some friction material and it is possible to rebuild a clutch by riveting on new friction material , but that does nothing to help the rubber rot problems. I delt with a great shop that I had reline some brake shoes, and they could do clutch plates too, but I think they closed, probably because of asbestos issues.
I saw some time back where someone posted a pic of a clutch plate that looked like it was modified to use springs but I'm unsure which clutch it was. maybe it would be possible to re-use the center hub with the splines and marry that to a normal clutch?
it seemed to me that there are more alternative sources for the 16V cars than the older ones.
I tried a few vendors but did not find a good alternative . I spoke to a guy that had been installing V8's in Porsches, he said he does not ever use rubber centered clutches.
it would not surprise me if there is some other car with the same splines and a more normal clutch that would fit, but how to locate that info? I'm not sure how.. maybe if someone had access to a bunch of other clutches they could start to make such side by side comparisons.
Please let us know if you learn more.
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