I bought a Clutchmaster lightened flywheel for my 91 Teg. I bought an OEM clutch replacement kit. I took to mechanic. They installed. Clutch wouldn't work. They took it apart and determined that the clutch kit was wrong. Since I had supplied the clutch kit, I had to pay them twice, to put my original parts back in with the lightened flywheel (but I had them put a new throwout bearing in, another $35). This all took days.

Finally I get the car back. I take the clutch kit back to Gripforce, a local seller of clutches and flywheels and tell them it didn't work. Technically speaking, the clutch disc was a little too tall, which didn't allow the pressure plate to expand. In addition, the throwout bearing would not slide on the shaft. They said "we move 10 of these a day". I said "bottom line, the parts didn't work in my car". They said "maybe it was mechanic error." I said three mechanics looked at it and it was tested independently at a machine shop and they also verified that the parts would not work. They said "we will investigate and get back to you in one week." Blah, blah, blah.

The story is not over my friends. My car has been making funny noises, occasionally it feels like the engine "shifts" on takeoff or when coming to a stop. Today I lifted the car up and put it in gear and low and behold, the front left wheel is spinning much faster than the front right which also makes a low grinding noise. Great. After all that the mechanic didn't put it back together correctly and who knows what the teeth on my right axle look like. I called the shop, the mechanic was fired last week, I take it in tomorrow morning to get the axle fixed. Hopefully then my nightmare will be over. Of course, I may end up stuck with a greasy but "unused" clutch kit that "may or may not fit 91 Integra's". Curses, foiled again.

On a positive note, I sucessfully installed my fuel pressure gauge and fuel pressure regulator today, a small victory. In addition, I was able to watch prodigious amounts of football this week, amen.