Originally Posted by irish07

The torque tube is the bellhousing..just extremely longer(nothing to split). You could leave the shaft in the torque tube but image installing a transmission with the bellhousing attached. There struggling to get the input shaft into the clutch splines and then wiggling the transmission to get the dowels lined up so you can bolt up the bellhousing...now take the input shaft away and how much easier is it?

So take out the shaft from the torque tube and it's 1 less thing to deal with...takes 5 seconds to remove and refit the shaft from the torque tube.

Originally Posted by irish07

The torque tube is the bellhousing..just extremely longer(nothing to split). You could leave the shaft in the torque tube but image installing a transmission with the bellhousing attached. There struggling to get the input shaft into the clutch splines and then wiggling the transmission to get the dowels lined up so you can bolt up the bellhousing...now take the input shaft away and how much easier is it?

So take out the shaft from the torque tube and it's 1 less thing to deal with...takes 5 seconds to remove and refit the shaft from the torque tube.

Originally Posted by blue2000s

Is this the same clutch?

http://www.davidapplebyengineering.c...rivetrain.html

Originally Posted by Jeff_335i

I believe it is. The slave cylinder and clutch pack are both Aston OEM items. The flywheel and spacer are the custom parts.

Originally Posted by terminal_ac

Better price though... At today's Exchange rates $2850 converts to $3,546.20, which is almost a $1,000 dollar difference!