My pro mod has a Walbern chassis. Ceramics don't really buy you anything. Ceramics excel at high temps. Which just don't exist in a car that might be on for a couple of minutes. I had Bill Possio mod my motors I kept asking for ceramic bearings and he talked me out of them. Yea use the whole mugen set-up clutch and tranny. The parts you would change are the clutch bell, pressure plate, 1st gear carrier and 2nd gear carrier. Get the lightest parts you can for anything that rotates. You can get someone to mill out the back of the flywheel but you can blow up motors real easy doing that when you clear them out on the line if you go too far. An essential item to get your clutch working properly is one of the lappers Walbern sells for the clutch shoe. Unless you lap that shoe it will take a few weeks of running to get it to the point where it works properly. Remember even a slow car only takes a couple of seconds to get to the finish line. If you last way into the rounds you might get 10 runs a day thats only 20 minutes of run time. And most of that is in the pits or on the line so the clutch can't get bedded in. Use the lapper and its ready to go as soon as you install the shoe. But don't just listen to me either. There are as many theories for the clutch as there are people running cars. Get on the imdra forum and rcdrags once it comes back up and pose the question get a lot of responces and then plan your own program to find out what works the best. Thats what its all about. You won't win by following in this game. The first few months you follow just like you do with any other type of car but sooner or later you have to break away and start experimenting. This whole drag racing thing is about going beyond what's known. All the top runners have their little secrets they have developed. Some part with them freely some don't. Its kinda like majicians. They won't show you a trick until you show them one in a lot of cases. Many of them don't want to waste time on somone until they show they are really interested. It takes a few months but once you are 'in' the information flows. I learned so much in a couple of years. Stuff that works no matter what kind of car you are running.

Griz