legality / longevity of Exedy stage 0 clutch?

[Guitar_stitch]

I'd recommend the RV6 retrofit and exedy stage 0 kit. It's basically the same clutch that comes stock in the Type R.

Paired with the single mass flywheel and full face disk under normal operation, I would expect 80k out of it. It's hard to get a good estimate on that life span because rarely do people install such a kit without anticipation of other performance enhancers.

As for emissions laws, the clutch kit doesn't change the way the engine runs. Unless the inspection shop pulls the transmission, they wouldn't even know it's there. It feels stock.

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[mjh]

Thank you everyone for the responses! I appreciate the confirmation.

 

[jakdotdot]

I seem to recall the main concern with emissions and aftermarket clutches/flywheels on this vehicle, at least in the early days, was if you went with too light of a flywheel, it might throw a CEL due to poor idle/misfires (or at least what the ecu interpreted as misfires).

*For anyone who didn't know, a CEL is an auto fail with CARB compliance.

As for how long the CTR retro will last you. Hard to say if you only got 20K out of a stock clutch.... I would wager it is longer than 20K though.

 

[Benster]

exactly what i said.

my bad, thought you said your street clutch had 6 pucks, moving on.

 

[Montana Miner]

RV6 retro flywheels are 42% lighter than the OEM dual mass. They specifically address the issue:

“Is it lightweight? RV6 1.5T FK8 Clutch Retro Flywheel 42% lighter than stock. We could have gone lighter however the issue with running a flywheel that is too light is that your will trip the misfire detection within ECU and throw an error code never allowing you to pass inspection. Light weight flywheels are also easier to stall and harder to launch. They also make the engine run rough at lower RPMs due to the lack of inertia. The main goal of this setup is to hold power without sacrificing comfort or drivability“

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