hey guys i have a spec stage 2+ going fter 3800(my clutch gave out), but yah im looking to see what you guys give for break in periods before your thrashing it,and is dirving at oen speed okay for a newly isntalled ckutch cuz i have to head out of town as soon as its installed, i know im picky, but i really wanna make sure its broken in it needs to last atleast 3 months insteaD of 3 weeks

 

500 miles of normal city driving . When ur coming to a stop instead of throwing it in nuetral downshift . Highway miles dont count

 

I'm curious to see how your 2+ holds up. We had a regular spec stage 2 on ours, and it destroyed itself.... twice.

Now it's a stage 3+, in the breakin period. Seems to feel a whole lot better. 500-1000 miles of city driving and i'll find out how it holds up.

 

I'm right around 500 miles on mine, but I think I'm going to wait a few hunderd more miles before I try launching the car.

 

yah i figued highwaymiles didntg count i guess ill thorw a 1000 on saturday driving round edmonton (kms)

 

my slipped( stg2) at the track but I dont think I broke it in enough. now its fine

 

My stage 3+ did the same.... broke it in for 1000miles and went to the track...slipped first 2 runs. I then let the car cool down about 1 hour and made some more pases. The clutch never slipped once... just took a little bit of beating to break it in. The clutch now grips better then ever.

 

i've had no slips yet and i've been driving the car the same as before and its been on for 1000 km

 

I have over 1500km on mine now, and i learned how to drive manual on this car. havnt had any probs yet, what does clutch slipping mean?

 

you step on the gas and your foot is off the clutch, but its stilled engaged bassically revvinng but going no where youll know exactly what i mean when u feel it

 

What causes it to keep revving as your foot is off the clutch?

 

^^^ Isn't the concept pretty self explanitory? The clutch is slipping...

 

well really it means you clutch is not dissengaging ould be 1 of 3 problems well coudl be more, but yah its pretty self explanatory

 

The Cobalt supposedly has a hard clutch stock. The higher stage clutch you pick, does that make it harder to press in or is it actually smoother? I have never owned a manual car so I will probably burn the clutch pretty fast.

 

Will the clutch eventually go back to normal? Or is a new clutch needed.

 

lol, well its hard and will be harder on friday, but once a lcutch starts slipping it can retunr to normal but wont be as reliable