Our friends at Motion Lab Tuning sent us these images of a customers car which had a cheap clutch let go while it was on their dyno.  While nobody was hurt and the damage was limited to the bell housing, it is only the first sample of what can happen in the Evo X platform when a clutch let’s go.

Motion Lab was able to replace the transmission and put a real clutch in the car for the customer.  Luckily it didn’t happen on a track have worse damage.

If you have any customer stories or examples of clutch or flywheel failures in any vehicle, let us know.  We strive to learn more about the damage effects in order to make our products better and safer.

I derived the name from four things… The first was that I am a III in my family genealogy… The second was the three on the tree transmission that I drove on my first real job… My car at the time was a limited edition of 3 of 1000 Mitsubishi Galant VR-4… And lastly I thought three and speed flowed well together hinting that the parts we make are speed parts.

Along with other things we have already done this year,  my wife and I, and Three-Speed are going to try and get portions of the Home Economics class taught to a handful of 7th graders.  In case you are young enough to not know what Home-Ec is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_economics

The sewing machines are at the school but just shoved in a closet going to waste with all the other supplies that could teach kids important life skills. Stephanie (my wife) is going to donate her time after school after her full day of teaching.

So materials and fabric are what we are going to buy. To start. hopefully the kids will make blankets that then will be donated to kids that need one. (This is all based on if the school district will allow it) As much as the sewing skill we hope to get more social interaction out of the kids and to open their eyes to why they need math and reading skills even though all they want to be is and artist or a basketball player.