Clutch Slipping= New Clutch
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QUOTE (hamhead @ Apr 19 2005, 07:45 AM)
Anyone with a Stage III and a lightened flywheel that has never driven one like it before will tell you its like having to relearn stick all over again.
Yeah tell me about it....... Just installed my VHR kit this past weekend and let me say I have been driving a manual tranny since I first learned how to drive 6 years ago and I have been stalling this thing out like crazy. My god is it grippy as hell.
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hmm ok so here is an update, kinda. I think i might have given a bad diagnosis. dont laugh at me, ill explain..
So ever since i thought i felt my clutch slipping ive been babying her real good like, because i knew it was going to be a few weeks before i could get a new one. But yesterday i accidentally gave her too much gas bc i was fiddling around eating a cup of ice cream. The clutch gripped great, and spun the tires like a champ. i obviously became confused. I tried it to do it again, great grippage once more. i realized that when i thought i felt the clutch slipping that maybe i was spinning the tires and couldnt hear it because i had the windows rolled up? later today im going to go do some more testing on it but is there a fool proof way to test clutch wear w.o opening it up? should i just get a new clutch anyway to be sure and because im going turbo? ill take her out today and post exactly what she does and see what you guys think...
So ever since i thought i felt my clutch slipping ive been babying her real good like, because i knew it was going to be a few weeks before i could get a new one. But yesterday i accidentally gave her too much gas bc i was fiddling around eating a cup of ice cream. The clutch gripped great, and spun the tires like a champ. i obviously became confused. I tried it to do it again, great grippage once more. i realized that when i thought i felt the clutch slipping that maybe i was spinning the tires and couldnt hear it because i had the windows rolled up? later today im going to go do some more testing on it but is there a fool proof way to test clutch wear w.o opening it up? should i just get a new clutch anyway to be sure and because im going turbo? ill take her out today and post exactly what she does and see what you guys think...
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i first installed a spec stage 2 with a fidanza, it was nice, but had issues, so i upgrade to a stage 4 from spec, way over kill for a pretty much stock tib. i wouldnt go with more then a stage 2 with basic bolt ons. o, and stay away from spec clutch's, things have hardcore quality issues. i guess thats what u get from buying anything from KORE
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QUOTE (hamhead @ Apr 19 2005, 11:18 PM)
If the Tib is your only manual on a stock clutch, post videos so we can laugh at your attempts to drive. lol.gif
Yeah, and add the phrase "RDTiburon.com" somewhere in in there.... Redzman might give you RDBucks!
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I may have to get in on this GB.. I am at 108,000 miles on the original clutch.. only a matter of time before it starts to slip.
Amazing the differences between the Tib and my Italian cars. I was moving my Lancia today, from one storage "bin" to another (cheaper and slightly smaller) and I stalled the poor car six times trying to get her rolling. Definitely a MUCH lighter engine than the Beta as far as reciprocating mass is concerned.
Amazing the differences between the Tib and my Italian cars. I was moving my Lancia today, from one storage "bin" to another (cheaper and slightly smaller) and I stalled the poor car six times trying to get her rolling. Definitely a MUCH lighter engine than the Beta as far as reciprocating mass is concerned.
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Start out at like 1400RPM in a higher gear and give it full throttle... if the clutch is slipping you will be able to see the RPMs shoot up for a second. Really the only test that I know of to tell if a clutch is slipping. Or you could just launch it full throttle one time and see how it goes. wink1.gif