Ok....just curious...Clutchflites....

[Rory McNeil]

A buddy of mine used to run a B&M ClutchFlite in his 340 powered 70 Duster. It was formally in a local A/GS 33 Willys with a 392 Hemi. With the sintered iron clutch disc, it was very abrupt, and hard on rearends. As mentioned, getting everything correctly aligned was a royal pain. He eventually sold the ClutchFlite, in favor of a normal 727 Torqueflite with a torque convertor. I think the original attraction of the ClutchFlite faded with the later advent of 4500+ stall speed convertors, and trans brakes.

[Alan Roehrich]

Really it was the Lenco that killed them. They were mostly a Gas, Funny Car, Altered, or even dragster unit. The first ones were "clutch hydros" based on the old hydramatic. Once the Lenco appeared, the clutch automatics began to fade rapidly from the scene.

I remember Ronnie sold one of his to a kid with a "pro street" pick up truck. He brought it in to be freshened up, and wanted the kid to see exactly what he got. Ronnie warned him "let them take the manual valve body and the hard shifting stuff out, you won't be able to stand it". The kid wanted it the other way, "how hard can you make it shift? I want it ALL!". Hehe, he wanted it all alright, for about a week. Then he wanted to put it all back stock except the clutch turbo part.