Competition Clutch Stage 4 6-Puck Clutch, 94-01 Integra

Competition Clutch Stage 4 6-Puck Clutch, 94-01 Integra

When a B18 stops being stock, the clutch conversation changes fast. If your 1994-2001 Integra (DC2 or DC4) is boosted, sprayed, or built to rev, the Competition Clutch Stage 4 6-puck ceramic clutch (8026-1620) is the strip-focused answer for the B-series hydraulic gearbox, rated by Competition Clutch for up to a 250 percent increase in torque capacity over stock.

What It Is and Why It Works

This is Competition Clutch's 1620 Series Stage 4 kit. The disc runs six ceramic buttons on a sprung hub, and the sprung center is the detail that matters: it absorbs some of the shock loading on engagement, which makes this far more livable than an unsprung race disc while still biting hard enough for serious power. The matched performance pressure plate is where the holding power comes from. On a B18C1 GS-R or B18C5 Type R turning real boost, or a B18B1 with a turbo kit hanging off it, this is the kit that stops the smell of slipping clutch between gears.

The box includes the pressure plate, the six-puck ceramic sprung disc, the release and pilot bearings, and an alignment tool. A flywheel is not included, so plan on resurfacing yours or pairing this with a new unit; a fresh friction surface is not optional on a clutch with this much clamp.

Specs

Fitment

This kit is for the 94-01 Integra's hydraulic B-series transmission. It does not fit the earlier DA Integra, and it has nothing to do with the 2023 and newer Integra. If you are running a cable-clutch B-series swap, you need the cable version of this kit instead.

What to Know Before You Buy

A 6-puck ceramic disc is an on-off switch compared to a street disc, and no amount of marketing changes that. Expect firm, abrupt engagement, expect some low-speed chatter when creeping in traffic, and expect both to get more dramatic if you bolt it to a light aluminum flywheel. Owners who commute on these adapt, but if your Integra is a daily with bolt-ons and stock-ish power, you will be happier with a Stage 2 or Stage 3 kit; this one earns its keep on cars that launch hard at the strip or make boosted torque a full-face disc cannot hold.

Break it in properly: 300 miles of normal, unheroic driving per Competition Clutch before the first hard pass. While the transmission is out, resurface or replace the flywheel, inspect the clutch fork and throwout sleeve, and consider fresh fluid for the clutch hydraulics; the B-series slave is cheap and thirty years old at this point. Budget one more thing: motor mounts. Worn mounts amplify puck-disc chatter and make a stiff clutch feel worse than it is.