You missing one?
looks to be missing #4 from the top. of course I am no expert and will stop guessing at this point.
2 metal to metal//
What is the gold Brock's star thing?
Single piece clutch mod from brocks. It eliminates the stock two piece back torque piece, some people think the stock two piece its a slipper clutch but it is not.
Some people with the stock two piece during drag strip launches experiences lurching or grabbing. The gold star thing eliminates it because it removes the back torque property of the two piece.
I think this is the piece that some people weld together. Does it works welded?
besides the missing fiber are all the drive plates the same thickness?
Yup, weld the stock two piece to make it one piece or buy the aftermarket type.
That's sad, but happy that you found it & that it didn't completely fail or shell out on you!!!
Was this done by someone, or from the factory this way?
My drive plates or the "fiber ones" are all less than .10" (many are 0.093") where 8ea of them should be .12" and two of them at .15"
I did not have a missing fiber plate I had and extra steel plate (driven plate) in the stack. My stack height was 1.94" with an extra steel plate in there! So the fibers are definitely below specs.
The steels are actually all flat with no warping. I will mic the steels later and may keep the good ones for an emergency, but the two steels that were next to each other and all the fiber ones are going in the trash.