Finally got my gear box off last night after the usual trials with this sort of work and not having done this sort of jobin a while! Some bits came off easy like the drive shafts, some more troublesome like the bitch pin, in the end I took off the linkage from the stick end. I was pretty pleased once I got in to have a look and at least this explains what happened! For starts the slave was starting to fail, possibly contributing to this plate failure and one of the springs has popped out the friction plate and the plate split. Wear wise the clutch was ok, still a fair bit of life left in it until this, had no indication this was about to happen!
Looking forward to getting it back together this weekend and all torqued up with my new parts, then its time to put in the B18 cams I have and do all the belts, water pump and hoses which is childsplay in comparision, replace the rad with a stock one and a slimline fan so I have some more engine bay room. Toying with getting the cam cover powder coated or refurbed in wrinkle black.
Went for an RPC stage 3 clutch, not sure on the quality of these so its a bit of a risk, time will tell and I'll probably find I should have gone with an Exedy Stage 2
. And a competition flywheel which looks well made.