Performance Clutch Kits for BMW 3 Series E46 (1999-2005)

Requires shorter flywheel bolts - 8x (P# 11227805885) - T#12322

Lightweight flywheels have proven themselves to be a worthwhile performance enhancement. But with the quicker throttle response and horsepower improvement comes one serious drawback: flywheel chatter. Without the dual-mass flywheel's rubber isolators, a lightweight aluminum flywheel has more rattle than stock. ECS has designed this flywheel using chrom-moly steel and it weighs almost ten pounds less than the stock DMF but not as extreme as full aluminum flywheels. The steel helps dampen vibration and noise so you get near-factory refinement and most of the benefits of a lightweight flywheel: quicker throttle response, better reliability, and more power to the wheels. This flywheel requires the E34 M5 sprung hub clutch kit.

Modern flywheels are built with additional components that are designed to dampen and minimize vibrations from the engine and transmission. Weight has increased and reliability has decreased. With additional weight more energy is required for it to move. A lightweight flywheel does away with the dual mass design and its additional mass so more energy can be diverted to where it counts most - moving the car. The flywheel and clutch is one of the first areas that engine builders address when making the rotating assembly lighter for race engines. The dampening effect is just not needed on cars that are focused on performance. And with a single-mass flywheel the unreliable DMF design is eliminated.

Stock flywheel weight - 25.0lbs
ECS flywheel weight = 16.55lbs

This item fits the following BMWs:
1992-1999 E36 BMW 323is 323ic 325i 325is 325ic 328i 328is 328ic M3
1999-2002 E46 BMW 323i 323ci 325i 325ci 328i 328ci 330i 330ci (5-speed)
1997-2002 Z3 BMW Z3 2.3 Z3 2.5i Z3 2.8 Z3 3.0i M Roadster M Coupe
2003-2005 E85 BMW Z4 2.5i Z4 3.0i (5-speed)

Pair with T#363031 or any flywheel designed to be used with the E34 M5 clutch.

Upgraded clutch kit to be used with E34 M5 architecture flywheels. Designed for factory and upgraded street car applications to handle up to 375 Ft/lbs at the crank.

Whether you're replacing a worn-out clutch or upgrading for increased power handling, this E34 M5 clutch kit offers a reliable solution for enhanced pedal feel, power capacity, and overall driving satisfaction.

Paired with a modified geometry flywheel, the E34 M5 style clutch is ideally suited for most E36, E46, and others using the same powertrain. It checks all the boxes for essential clutch replacement features. While some aftermarket options may address slipping issues and worn-out clutches, they often sacrifice pedal feel, providing little to no resistance. A soft clutch not only kills the driving experience of your BMW but also reduces confidence when pushing the car to its limits.

On the contrary, you might be in the market for an upgraded clutch to handle your modified engine/forced induction builds. You go from an OE or aftermarket clutch option that has a lackluster and soft pedal feel to the complete opposite side of the spectrum, a very stiff clutch that grabs like an on-and-off switch making the clutch a pain almost undrivable on the street resulting in your favorite car turning into your least favorite car to drive.

The E34 M5 clutch kit balances performance with practicality, ensuring a satisfying driving experience whether you're maintaining your BMW or preparing it for increased power demands.

Kit Contents:

Performance Clutch Disc and Pressure plate
Throw-out Bearing
Clutch Alignment Tool
Pilot Bearing
Clutch features:

Torque Capacity (Crankshaft):
375 Ft / Lbs
Clutch Disc:
240mm Full face, performance organic friction material with integrated copper for enhanced heat dissipation and a long component life
OE-like friction backing plate design for smooth engagement with dual-stage damping springs to reduce gear noise and driveline chatter, and for smooth engagement
Pressure Plate:
Increased clamp force over OEM, rated at 1,729lbs of pressure
Throw-out Bearing:
OE spec for ease of installation and reliable operation
Clutch Alignment Tool:
BMW small 10 spline design, made for perfect fitment into the crank bore
Perfect clutch disc spline and size, easy removal with pull tab
​Not all aftermarket clutch kits include this proper alignment tool! We ensured you received the proper tool for trouble-free installation!
Fitment:
1992-1999 E36 BMW 323is 323ic 325i 325is 325ic 328i 328is 328ic M3
1999-2002 E46 BMW 323i 323ci 325i 325ci 328i 328ci 330i 330ci (5-speed)
1997-2002 Z3 BMW Z3 2.3 Z3 2.5i Z3 2.8 Z3 3.0i M Roadster M Coupe
2003-2005 E85 BMW Z4 2.5i Z4 3.0i (5-speed)
1977-1989 E24 BMW M6
1982-1988 E28 BMW M5
1987-1995 E34 BMW M5

BMW E46 M3 Stage 2 Daily Clutch Kit is designed to deliver impressive power handling and daily drivability for modified E46 M3s. Turner Motorsport offers this high-performance clutch kit, engineered to withstand increased horsepower and torque while maintaining a near-stock pedal feel. Featuring a heavy-duty pressure plate and high metal-content organic disc, this Stage 2 clutch kit is ideal for street driving, moderate racing, and daily performance needs.

With an enhanced clamp load that doesn’t compromise pedal pressure, this clutch kit is conservatively rated to handle up to 340 lbs/ft of torque. Its solid-hub center design ensures smooth compatibility with the OE dual-mass flywheel, making it a reliable choice for E46 M3 enthusiasts looking to upgrade their clutch system for increased durability and strength.

• Heavy-Duty Pressure Plate: Increased clamp load for enhanced torque capacity with minimal change in pedal pressure
• High Metal-Content Organic Disc: Boosts friction coefficient and rotational strength, rated for up to 12,000 RPM burst point
• Daily Drivability: Maintains a near-stock feel, perfect for street and moderate race applications
• Solid-Hub Center Design: Works seamlessly with the OE dual-mass flywheel for reliable performance
• Torque Handling: Conservatively rated to manage up to 340 lbs/ft of torque for added performance

Recommended for daily, street, and moderate race use.

Enhance Your BMW's Performance with a Heavy Duty Pressure Plate

Enhance your BMW's performance with a Heavy Duty Pressure Plate, designed for high-performance modifications. This pressure plate provides an increased clamp load without significantly raising pedal pressure. The Organic disc material boasts a high metal content, doubling the co-efficient of friction compared to stock linings and reinforcing rotational strength up to a 12,000 RPM burst point. Despite its robustness, this clutch system maintains a stock feel while ensuring durability and strength.

Stage 2 Daily Clutch Kits offer:

• Recommended for daily driving, street use, and moderate racing
• Conservatively rated to withstand 340lbs/ft of torque
• Equipped with a solid-hub center section for compatibility with OE dual-mass flywheel

Upgrade your BMW's performance with a Stage 2 Daily Clutch Kit, providing enhanced durability and performance while maintaining a familiar driving feel.

Stage 3 Daily Clutch Kit for BMW

Upgrade your BMW's clutch system with this Stage 3 Daily Clutch Kit, designed for high-performance vehicles seeking OEM-like start performance. Engineered with a Race Engineered (SS) pressure plate, this kit offers a significant load increase over stage 1 and 2 pressure plates, providing enhanced durability and performance. Experience a 20%-25% increase in pedal effort, ensuring precise control during acceleration. The discs are equipped with heat-treated wear-resistant hubs, drive plates, and springs for optimal load transfer and reliable operation. The sprung centers and marcel fin on the disc deliver dual dampening effects for smooth starts, similar to OEM performance. With a Performance Organic friction material, this kit enhances torque and RPM capability while maintaining low operating temperatures to minimize wear and glazing.

• Suitable for daily driving, spirited street, and occasional track use
• Rated to hold up to 500lbs/ft of torque
• Features a sprung hub clutch compatible with SouthBend Single Mass Flywheel (ES4140474)

Every design is thoroughly researched and tested prior to release to guarantee their products meet and exceed the customer's expectations. Careful attention is payed to factors such as engine torque, maximum RPM, drive type (FWD, RWD, AWD), and the type of driving being done, such as street, sport, track events, racing, etc. ACT's clutch kits are competitively priced, often with  specifications greater than competitor's and at a higher quality.

This clutch kit features a Xtreme pressure plate, an G6 racing clutch disc, and an XACT Streetlite Flywheel.

Their Xtreme pressure plate offers a 50-120% clamp load increase, moderate to heavy pedal feel, and is recommended for high performance street and racing applications. All diaphragms went through a four stage heating process for increased strength and unparalleled performance.

The G6 clutch disc is a sprung, 6-pad racing disc that is recommended for high horsepower street and race us and is better at handling high heat than the 4-pad disc. Its material composition is high quality, ceramic friction materials and a heavy duty torsional dampening springs that are rate for this clutch disc's size and expected uses. It has an increased torque capacity, and is better for faster shifting with its low weight and inertia. Being a racing disc, it has good durability and its ceramic composition allows for high heat tolerances. It also has a fast, aggressive engagement in comparison to standard street-use clutch discs.

The XACT Streetlite Flywheel is their most popular flywheel as it is great for both street and drag racing. It allows your engine to rev quicker, giving you increased throttle response, and is considerably lighter than your stock flywheel thanks to its light single-mass design, all while still being very durable!

Clutch Kit Specs:

• Torque Rating: 465 ft/lbs
• 52% torque capacity increase over stock!
• Type of Disc: Street
• 10-count spline
• Spline Size: 1-3/8" inch
• Flywheel Weight: 15.1 lbs
• 1 year Warranty from retail purchase date!

Ensure your clutch system can get the all of the power to the wheels. Stock clutch components lack the ability to transmit the full torque and horsepower loads to the wheels without suffering from increased wear and eventual clutch fade. Sachs Performance Clutch Kits are designed for sport and race applications, delivering higher torque transmission without succumbing to wear and tear and fading over extended periods of abuse.

Sachs Performance Clutch Kits include the following upgraded components:

• Performance Pressure Plate - Increased clamping force and resistant to wear

• Performance Clutch Disc - Allows for higher clamping force, higher torque transmission, and better clutch engagement at higher RPM’s

• Performance Throwout Bearing - Designed for increased spring pressure and higher RPM function

These kits are available with two different clutch discs, Organic and Metallic. Organic clutch discs are perfect for both performance street and light-moderate track applications. Metallic are designed for specifically for full-time track use such as endurance racing, clubsport, autocross, hill climbing and 1/4 mile racing. Please be sure you are purchasing the kit that best fits your needs. Our sales staff can help with any questions or concerns you may have!

Sachs Performance is the racing and performance oriented selection of high quality parts from Sachs and ZF Engineering. Supplying countless brands with OE parts and offering one of the widest selection of OEM replacement parts, they are known for their exceptionally high quality products. You can purchase these performance parts with confidence, knowing they will resist heavy wear and tear for much longer than most other aftermarket options.

This kit from Valeo is a simple way to easily convert your stock dual mass flywheel clutch system to a single mass system.

Dual mass flywheels allow for fluid-feeling clutch engagements and offer a more luxurious feel than single-mass flywheels. However, with these benefits come significant drawbacks. Why convert from a dual-mass flywheel to a single-mass flywheel?

Cost: Dual-mass flywheels are expensive, with the cost of replacement often times being double or triple than that of converting to a single-mass flywheel.
Serviceability: Single-mass flywheels can be resurfaced, eliminating the need to replace with the next clutch service. - something that is not recommended with dual-mass flywheels, as they contain a rubber section that is more failure-prone in high mileage application.
Simplicity: Single-mass flywheels lack the complexity of dual-mass flywheels, making them inherently more reliable. Dual-mass flywheels contain a rubber damper or hub that will, like all rubber components, wear out with time.
Pedal Feel: Many enthusiasts prefer to eliminate BMW's "Self Adjusting Clutch", which has been known to provide an unpredictable, inconsistent engagement point.
Driveability: Valeo's conversion kit has been designed to maintain nearly identical clutch and flywheel weight, ideal for keeping the clutch quiet and easy to drive.
Kit contents:

Single-mass flywheel
Non-Self Adjusting Clutch and pressure plate
Throw out bearing
Pressure plate bolts
Flywheel bolts
Clutch alignment tool

This clutch package is built to handle heavily modified cars and designed to function according to the specific needs of the 1/4 and 1/8 mile track. The pressure plate for this kit is SFI approved Race Cover engineered to disengage with less pedal travel shortening the shift time. Discs are a puck design, which reduces rotational mass and are assembled with all high carbon component pieces for maximum strength. The friction material used is Graphite impregnated Ceramic perfectly suited for drag racing because of its maximum friction co-efficient, rapid heat dissipation and abrupt engagement characteristics.

Stage 3 Drag/Drift Clutch Kits:

Recommended uses are drag, pulling, drifting

Conservatively rated to hold 600lbs/ft of torque

Featuring a solid-hub center section for use with an OE dual-mass flywheel

Upgrade your BMW's performance with the BMW E46 Z3 Stage 2 Endurance Clutch Kit, designed for durability and enhanced driving experience. This clutch kit is engineered to handle increased torque and power while maintaining everyday drivability. Perfect for enthusiasts looking to improve clutch performance without sacrificing comfort.

• Enhanced durability for endurance driving
• Handles increased torque and power
• Maintains smooth and precise clutch engagement
• Suitable for both street and track use

Experience improved clutch performance with the BMW E46 Z3 Stage 2 Endurance Clutch Kit.

This clutch package is designed for high HP vehicles desiring a start performance similar to O.E. The pressure plate is Race Engineered (SS) and SFI approved with significant load increase over stage 1,2 pressure plates (+600-800 lbs.). Expect a pedal effort increase of 20%-25%. Discs are assembled with heat-treated wear resistant hubs; drive plates and springs for high load transfer and dependable operation. The sprung centers on the disc in conjunction with the marcel fin between the linings create a dual dampening effect that simulates O.E. start performance. A Performance Organic friction material with a high metal content increases torque and RPM capability and maintains low operating temperatures which reduces wear and glazing.

Stage 3 Daily Clutch Kits:

Recommended usages are daily, spirited street and occasional track

Conservatively rated to hold 400lbs/ft of torque

Featuring a sprung-hub center section for use with a single-mass flywheel

This system features a Heavy Duty Pressure Plate modified for a puck style disc with no cushion between the linings to keep the clutch pedal travel short and quick. The puck design disc reduces rotational mass and total drive surface area while increasing pounds per square inch on the surface of the friction material. This combination minimizes inertia, accelerating the transfer of torque from the engine to the wheels. The friction material used for this race application is Graphite Impregnated Ceramic. This compound exceeded all other friction materials when testing for durability, reduced chatter, heat transfer and torque capacity.

Stage 2 Drag/Drift Clutch Kits:

Recommended uses are drag racing, drifting and limited street

Conservatively rated to hold 370lbs/ft of torque.

Featuring a solid-hub center section for use with an OE dual-mass flywheel