Ok so I've been driving the car a little harder since the DP install. Earlier this afternoon when I switched to second, I noticed there was a delay...The RPMS fell and raised back up...weird. That never happened. I drove it later tonight, even worse...and had a friend confirm the clutch is slipping. I have 4,000 miles on the damn car! This is GAYe...

 

Mine went out at 7000....I bought it with 6000 on it.....these clutches suck IMO but then again a girl drove it before me

 

Wow, what did you do to replace it?

 

Threatened the dealer with a lawyer but that was after 2 weeks of BS and insults from the service manager

 

I'm around 17k with my stock clutch and run the hell out of it. I'm not sure why people have issues, but maybe some are worse than others. Mine is even holding up to 7.2k redline shifts with 260+ HP for 4k miles.

 

How many miles do you have on your new clutch? A buddy of mine works for a GM dealer and said he can get it replaced without any problems...it's still effin' stupid

 

I beleive if any "wear items" blow before a certain mileage (like 7000) its still under warranty as defective.

Look it up

 

I hit 26000 today so 19000 since being replaced

 

Cool so no problems eh?

 

Well it slips a bit on somedays and then on others it is fine, really my only problem is shifting form first to second, thats where is slips the most, but thats pretty common from what ive seen on this site. Just a crappy clutch for a performance car IMO they should have put more time into it.

 

Eh that is soo lame.

 

25K and going with Stg2 from my cars inception and all on the stock clutch. Make sure it's not the tires spinning instead of the clutch slipping. Sometimes the tires will spin and you won't hear em.

I have also learned with this car, that you kind of have to re-learn how to drive using a clutch. Our cars have to be driven differently.

 

Yea it is, they were gonna charge me $1500 to replace it(they said that was discounted) but I said **** that. Hopefully you wont have to fight them like I did, It was christmas break to, I was on my way home from school whcich is a 370 mile drive, and 10 miles from my house the clutch just gave way on me. Then I had to fight them for 2 weeks so my christmas break pretty much blew.

 

Dude trust me...It's the clutch

 

Well, then save your pennies for Excedy. That's the only one out that I would trust other then a stock replacement. Sucks man, I'm glad the weather is cooling off. Better for the clutch for me. lol

 

What does those run...like a G?

 

I just turned over 40K on the stock clutch, and thats with work done for 90% of that. It even held fast shifts on the bottle for a few weeks. Now, its finally starting to loose its grip after one good run, but its still very drivable. There is nothing wrong with the factory clutch, you just have to know how to use it. Its kinda stupid that you have to do it, but if you drive it correctly it works great.

about $1200. I will be getting one when I can afford it.

 

Yeah, they run about a G, then about another 6 hundo for install. It's about 8 hours for someone knowledgeable that hasn't done it before and can be done in about 6 hours.

 

mine was gone at 8k but it was bad driving

 

I think I'll pass...That is wayy too expensive

 

I'm not sure of any other aftermarket clutches that are of good quality and with no issues. Wish ya luck man, and keep us posted.

 

bully is not bad you just have to bleed it right and you are fine

 

i have the same problem sometimes and i got 2700 miles on my car lol but i find that you just have to dump the clutch out faster and it grabs

 

Correct, our clutches have been made to be treated a bit rough. You're not really supposed to baby em. I'm not saying that you should drop the hammer everytime, but they are meant to be used ya know

 

ive got 30,000 on my clutch and it started slippin about 2 weeks after i got the 2.9 installed...ive been followin that shift at 3k ever since i bout the car with 13k on the clock and it might/might not be helpin..i didnt really notice a diffrence,but ur clutch will start to go out more if u beat on it..next u will notice 2nd-3rd shift delay and than power