Clutch Fork/Bellhousing Interference

[Rory McNeil]

I didn`t know that GM racers were also having issues with QT bellhousings too. For whatever reason, it seems that Quick Time assumed that everybody that needs a scattershield is using a diaphragm style pressure plate. When they first came out, I wanted to buy a QT for my 428 FE Ford, but between them saying that their bellhousings "met all SFI test standards", yet were not provided with a SFI sticker, and that to use a QT in a Ford application and a Long style pressure plate, like a McLeod Soft Lok, or how every Ford FE powered vehicle to roll off the assembly line came equipped, required stacking 2 or 3 block plates to get adequate room,well screw that BS. I have also heard that in several applications, QT also elected to change the location and angle that the clutch fork is oriented . Too bad, had QT made a product that actually worked in a real race enviroment, they likely would have sold a lot more units. Its weight savings and compact design would have been a real plus, But to get an actual SFI stickered housing costs more, is heavier, negates much of the benefit. Sad thing that since Lakewood bought out Quick Time, that many of the old Lakewood housings have been discontinued, and now many less popular engines have no reasonably priced SFI bellhousings available any more.