[Fullraceflathead]

With the stock Model A producing around 127' lbs of torque You would think the stock pressure plate was way overkill. You would think maybe having a capacity of 200’ lbs of torque holding ability would be more than enough and provide a very soft clutch pedal.
Modern diaphragm pressure plates typically have a much softer clutch pedal load by design.
I would think you could actually remove every other spring on the factory pressure plate and still have adequate holding ability with a stock engine of course, and in addition to using the longer arm on the clutch release shaft.
In reality the clutch only needs to hold 127 foot pounds of torque and 40 hp so with a stock Model A engine if you double that in capacity for the clutch pressure plate it really doesn’t need to have that much spring pressure at all.
The current pressure plates are way over capacity to cover higher powered applications in my opinion.