ive been practicing launching my car for the past couple of days. and tonight i think my clutch died on me. i really dont know what the problem is. well if i put it in any gear and fully release the clutch at a complete stop it doesnt stall. i cant even drive my car normally. when i do release the clutch in first gear, it just slowly takes off like an automatic transmission car does when you let go of the brake and then it slowly gains speed, as i put gas into it it doesnt go any faster or sometimes it'll gain very little speed. can anybody please explain whats wrong with my car and what's the best and cheapest thing to fix this problem. thanks.

 

sounds to me like your clutch is history due to some practice launhes

 

The clutch is gone. I hope you are prepared to deal with this. It's the price you pay for trying to drag race an Evo. If you are going to continue this, I would recommend an Exedy twin disk. They seem to handle the abuse you are putting on the car. I just rolled over 20,000 miles the other day on the stock clutch and power mods done to my car. It's all about how you drive them.

 

well hate to tell u this but your clutch is gone. not to mention the flywheel. chances are the fly wheel is so bad u wont be able to get it cut. ive noticed that when u practice launching the car, the flywheel gose out faster than the clutch due to extreem heat i know cause it happend to me. and another sign is when a clutch goes out u cant put the car into gear so your clutch is probably got a little life but not enough so i recomend doing clutch and flywheel.<------------- (no light weight) and i strongly recomend that u dont drive the car cause if u do and the flywheel gets hot enough it will blow up. im not playing ive seen freinds loose legs and lives cause of that ****. (if u dont know what im talking about ask me.)

 

Please don't try and get this fixed under warrenty..this is a perfect example of someone who SHOULDN'T get warrenty work. He was deliberatly hard launching his car and totally tearing up the clutch, not something that should be covered under warrenty.

 

werd...No offense man, but, that was all your bad this isnt a manufacturing problem. AWD trannies are like glass man you gotta tread lightly or else...that happens.

Go with Exedy twin or something.

 

well thanks for the replies guys. i don thave much money so i might go with an act clutch and hope it will last a while so i can save to get a better one. i was abusing it pretty badly. ive been overly launching it this whole week. and it died with barely 3300 miles. oh well. that stock clutch is weak and i was going to replace it anyways. so i thought that i might as well put it to some use and used it to practice launching. its cool. ive learned a valuable lesson and it is that the stock clutch sucks and its hella weak. i going to have it towed to a nearby shop and checked if my flywheel is messed up too. should i change the flywheel too even if its not jacked? thanks.

 

sounds like you don't realize the labor for an Evo clutch job is insane. yes, a twin disc clutch is fairly expensive but it's the labor that will really bite your ***.

the lesson you should've learned is to not drive like that. let's say you had the money for a twin disc or hell, got ahold of a 3 puck unsprung hub. what would be the next post after that? "guess I learned my lesson, the transfer case sucks and is hella weak." ?

 

I would be careful with who you take it to. Make sure they have Evo experience.

 

^(colinl) nah man. i know a place close by that could do it for me for three hundred some. im not the onlyperson with an evo who's had this problem. all i was asking was for some advice and not any criticism. whatever man.

 

It isn't necessarily that the stock one was weak, it was because you were abusing it badly. If you don't have much money to spend on repairs, then you should tailor your driving style around this. I have 21,000 miles on my stock clutch and power mods since 5,000 miles. I never launch the car, but I still drive the thing VERY aggressively. I just think you shouldn't be fixated with drag racing in a 4 door car. Everyone knows they are quick, but the steering wheel and a proportional throttle is where the real fun comes from. Oh well, to each his own.

 

not trying to start a flame war, BUT, think of the clutch as a fuse. It blows before you wreck some other (more expensive) component in the drivetrain. Even you said that you were "abusing" it, so why should you be surprised that it died? No doubt that a lot of people have had problems with the clutch, but characterising it as a "problem with the clutch" and not a "problem with the person controlling the clutch" is incorrect FWIF. There are alot of people who have little or no problem with the stock clutch, if they don't line launch it.

YMMV,
Greg

 

The stock clutch isn't weak imo. I have 16,500 miles on mine and I've had additional power mods on my car for a majority of those miles. I also launch mine at every autox event (5 runs at each event, two events a month)..so I launch it about 10 times a month. On the street I don't launch it...no need to.

 

I launch it once a couple times for fun. Launching with a little chirp and shifting into 2nd with a little chirp. The maximum rpm I launch with is 4500 rpm and slowly goes down a little from 4500 to 4000 and stays there. It's like a slip and small drop. I have 20,000 miles on my stock clutch. I had performance mods since I had 2000 miles on the car. Even if I do street race, i don't really launch it. Get an Exedy Clutch on ebay. they're going pretty cheap. Our cars arent for drag but they're for performance. I dont understand why people buy this car and drag race it.

 

$300 some? two bets: 1, they've never done an Evo clutch. 2, they won't do it right for that price or in a timely fashion.

I gave you advice along with my criticism. after you have a beefier clutch installed, you WILL start breaking more expensive things.

have fun!