I'm wandering in from another city, but I've recently replaced my clutch basket and it all looks very familiar.
Just wondering if you aligned the pin-like thing on that center steel bushing-thing. There's a single pin that locates it on the back side of the flange which might make it sit with that gap.
i know what you mean about the pin, btw...it is present on the stock hub, but is not on the billet hub, which is why i was thinking maybe that bushing wasn't even supposed to be there, which apparently it is not.