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The Centerforce DF021048-S is a bolt-on 11" dia diaphragm clutch cover and your stock flywheel will accept the assembly without redrilling. The 10-1/2" Centerforce clutch & disc will hold at least 450 horces; the 11" stock unit was probably overkill originally but thats what we got. You'll be pleased by the reduction in pedal pressure with either of these clutches. I ALWAYS advise using a long-throw slave cylinder for a reasonable increase in disengagement at the clutch. This saves your priceless ZF synchronizers (or whats left of them, anyway...) The crowned or radiused-face throwout bearing recommendation for flat-finger diaphragm clutches comes not from me but from Mac Tilton, who knows a thing or two about clutches. He says that due to the angle made between the face of a flat-face throwout bearing and the diaphragm clutch fingers, clutch action is non-linear and abrupt. A crowned face makes the car more controllable. Note also there is a bent-finger diaphragm clutch for Chevys that works with flat-face throwouts, just to confuse things (not offered by Centerforce though). Don't know anything the McLeod unit- sorry.