New act slipping ?
As mentioned above, you could have glazed your clutch disk. It's not that simple as just resufacing the flywheel. Just the fact that you mentioned that your clutch slipped doesn't sound good. That could also be a clutch pedal height adjustment issue also, but I wouldn't get on it hard anymore. You might as well do the 500 mile break in or what ever is recommended by ACT. Then try out some launches and full throttle runs after you've broken in your clutch. If it slips then you'll know the answer and will have learned an expensive lesson. I wish you luck and hope nothing bad ends up happening.
I agree that breaking in the clutch is important but with those power numbers it shouldn't have slipped regardless of being broken in or not. It could have been a couple other things that caused it to slip. I suspect you were just feeling the affects of the restrictor causing a delay in the engagement. Timed wrong at WOT, the restrictor wil cause the clutch to slip way too much. When racing that restictor is brutal on the clutch. Without the restrictor, it can be murder on the transmission (depending on how stupid you drive on it). I don't think you did any substantial damage judged by your description, but everytime you beat on it before you break it in properly will shorten the life of the clutch.
Originally Posted by ACTman
I agree that breaking in the clutch is important but with those power numbers it shouldn't have slipped regardless of being broken in or not. It could have been a couple other things that caused it to slip. I suspect you were just feeling the affects of the restrictor causing a delay in the engagement. Timed wrong at WOT, the restrictor wil cause the clutch to slip way too much. When racing that restictor is brutal on the clutch. Without the restrictor, it can be murder on the transmission (depending on how stupid you drive on it). I don't think you did any substantial damage judged by your description, but everytime you beat on it before you break it in properly will shorten the life of the clutch.
I actually had the same thought since i planned on buying the braided clutch line but i've heard it will probably destroy the tranny or the lsd spider gears in my case being 03, but on the flip side, the restrictor doesnt seem to help in terms of clutch engagement. Remembering back yesterday, it didn't feel as so the clutch slipped, but more of a "i'm trying to catch up with the car" feelling if you could call it that. Anyhow, drove it for 100 miles today with the wife and kids just cruising, didn't rev it past 4k and it felt pretty nice, so i don't think there was any permanent damage. Gonna break it in for 500 miles just to be on the safe side.
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