hell yea if you drive it hard enough

 

Kick your friend in the *****!

 

60k on the stocker with spray and about 80-100 launches, how the hell do people destroy clutches like this. Noobs shouldnt learn how to drive stick on evos FFS.

 

blew my stocker at 5k miles by doing that
i learn my lessons real quick

 

man i've got like 20+ launches on my clutch and its a stage 1 organic from exedy .. yay.. lol. sry about the car man. good luck

 

i can kill one in less than 60 seconds

Try to launch in 3rd and just slip it till it goes out.

Thanks.

-Cass

 

yeah it only take a few secounds to kill a new clutch if you dont know what your doing
all you got to do is half the clutch pedal half way down and keep the revs close to redline and it will be tosted is a matter of seconds

 

Do you know that from experience? I hope not, I'm sure that would smell really bad.

 

I guess I was just extremly lucky with my stocker, I activly tried to destroy it before I dropped my car off for a new one, I couldnt get the bastard to slip, I launched it about 5-10 times a week for two months. Plus I have been to the track like three time, gotten about 12 runs in, so thats two launches a run (one to warm up dem tires a little bit, more of a clutch dump really)

 

I'm not sure its not you being lucky, it might be more technique. People slip/drop the clutch differently which can have an effect on the life.

 

4 days? you could do it in 4 minutes.

 

you need more power!

 

After reading this, i firmly believe you are the cause of the premature clutch failure. Regardless of if you launch or not, you odviously don't know how to properly engage a clutch. Like myself and others have said, we launch our stock clutches all the time; and get 5-10 times more life out of them than you did. Your driving style is the problem.

5k miles is just disgusting. Poor Evo.

At least look at the bright side, this clutch lasted you twice as long on the stocker; so in my book it did its' job.

I think it's time for you to look into an automatic vehicle...

 

Yes, riding the clutch will kill it. Back in the day, I let a friend of mine (who was big into American muscle cars and hated imports) drive my 116 MPH Eclipse GSX. I rode with him the whole time, and though he never launched it, he did drive it fairly hard. Every time he would take off from a dead stop and turn 90* (read: intersection) he would slip the clutch as he was giving it throttle. The car's back end would get loose a bit when he did this. I didn't really worry about it too much, considering I beat on the car on a daily basis and never had any kind of clutch problems. I also noticed that he was riding the clutch. I couldn't tell if he had any true pressure applied to the clutch pedal or if he was just "resting" his foot on it. The main reason that I didn't worry about it was because he drove two different M/T vehicles himself (GMC S-15 pickup and a Ford Mustang GT). He only drove my car for a total of about 30 minutes.

Anyway, later that night when I was driving home (cruising at about 50 MPH in 4th gear) I laid into the throttle. The RPMs climbed normally until the car built boost, and then slipped and jumped about 1500 RPMs. I knew exactly what had happened, so I got off the throttle and limped the car the rest of the way home. I drove around for about 2 weeks babying the clutch. After about 1000 miles of boring driving, I decided to see if I could duplicate the same problem. 50 MPH in 4th, then WOT until redline. Sure enough, once the turbo spooled to about 10 PSI, the tach would jump up about 1500 RPMs. Dead clutch.


Of course, if you try to tell your friend that he killed your clutch, he's more than likely going to google "Evo clutch" and show you about 17,493,302 reasons as to why he wasn't that big of a contributing factor to your clutch dying on you. Then you two will end up arguing and hating each other, resenting everything that the other one does and stands for. Eventually you'll wage a war between your family and his family, which will ultimately end in bloodshed and agony.

Just do like I did: Forget about it, learn your lesson, and upgrade to something better. Then, never let anyone drive your car again.

 

+1 !!!!