When I rebleed the clutch, it made the situation worse. So I wouldn't imagine it would be air bubbles, unless more is getting in their somehow(broken line). But I know it's not from a broken/damaged line since the brake fluid reservoir doesn't get low.

I've talked to Kris@SSP and he's thinking that when the retainer clip popped out like I said on my first post. He thinks that when I put in the seal, shaft, and clip back in.. I might've put it in a little crooked causing either the seal to be pushed back or causing it to get damaged..

Either way, Kris said he's never had the retainer clip pop out on any of his customers, and knows that it shouldn't have done that to begin with. So all I have to do is send him my clutch master cylinder and he's going to fix it with all brand new seals, shaft, clips, etc and send it back to me free of charge.

I'm hoping that the CMC will be the only issue, so I can get back to working on putting my FP Black in.

 

^^^^

But it definitely sounds plausible. Since I was in a rush to get the stupid clip back on, so it would stop spilling brake fluid all over my interior.. so I guess I could say it was both of our stupid mistakes. Also, it was pretty tough to put the clip back on from how you're angled, especially with a bad back, lol.

 

Funny my slave just went at 52000 miles.

 

Slave cylinder is always a very likely cause especially if u drag race/launch your car

 

With a ssp CMC, that is 100% the problem. Replace it with a magnus setup. Fredbeansparts has them all packaged up and rdy to go. Ssp makes complete crap parts, their cmcs fail all the time. No magnus conversion using a jdm 8/9 CMC has failed. Its the only permanent fix. Sorry for the bad news :-(

 

Sounds like the CMC has gone again! Upgrade to the Magnus V2

 

I've hardly launched my car, and the times I do the revs barely bounces off the two step, so they're fairly light launches.

Hopefully it's the CMC since SSP offered to fix it for free, so I'll give SSP a 2nd shot, if it ends up breaking again. I guess try Magnus, and if it breaks again, I guess I'll break down with it. Lol

But if it's the Slave Cylinder, it's np I guess. But isn't the Slave Cylinder supposed to make the clutch pedal come back up? The problem is if there's slight pressure, the clutch pedal sinks, which seems more of a CMC issue.

 

On evoxforums, at least 10 ppl have had the same issue you're having. They all figured out it was the SSP cmc. V2, V3, doesn't matter. Save yourself another install cost and just get the magnus now

 

There's a big thread about the Evo IX/Magnus cmc failing on EvoXForums too. I'm thinking of going with the Spec Stg 3+ and Stock CMC. My friend has it on like that, he hasn't ran into problems, and looks like some other people are doing it too.

It'll hold well on it's own for even FP Black set ups, which is fine for me. Wish I had just done that from the start, my stock cmc is in pieces, 'cause I thought I wouldn't be needing it. Guess I just wasted a $125...

 

Apparently the Clutch Masters FX300 has less pressure than the Spec Stg 3+, so technically.. the stock CMC should hold the FX300 fine on its own, shouldn't it...?

FX300 is what I'm using right now.

 

And if you'd read that thread fully, you'd see that magnus had originally used non-jdm 8/9 cmcs from some chinese POS factory. None of the Nabco Japan cmcs have ever failed, and thats the only part they sell now. :-)

 

Yea CMC is a good possibility for sure...I was going off the issue that I had awhile back on my IX after I had been doing A LOT of launching at the track...Replacing the slave cylinder fixed my issue...But my problem was that my clutch pedal wouldn't return all the way after shifting so it was causing lockout issues with high RPM shifting...I was running a Spec Stage 3+ during the launches btw

The clutch slave cylinder is what physically contacts the clutch fork down on the trans so during hard launches/harsh shifting the slave takes most of the force in comparison to the clutch master cylinder...The master has the force of the pedal pressure on one side and hydraulic pressure on the other...The slave has the hydraulic pressure on one side and the force from the clutch fork/pressure plate on the other

 

Ive had my CMC go out twice. First was the stocker at 9K miles and after upgrading to the magnus it went out again at 14K miles. Do yourself a favor and buy a EVO 8/9 OEM clutch master cylinder and take it to a dealer who can fabricate it onto your car correctly. I cant tell you how much this problem has cost me in the past year.

 

I'm still sketched about dealerships working on my car, especially a Mitsubishi dealers, LOL! Hate to say it, but I feel like Mitsubishi dealers would be the worst.

Anyways, I have a local shop I know.. they specialize in Audi/VW, but it's a family friend owned business, so I'm sure they'll do good work.

Aslong as they properly bench bleed and install the cmc correctly, it shouldn't have a problem.
For now, I can't really wait for Magnus/SSP to ship their item, so I'll go to a Mitsubishi dealership, buy the stock Evo X CMC. Hopefully last a thousand mile or two, before I get my Magnus.. and go to a Evo shop that I know, and have them install it.

Most people like to run the Spec Stage 3+ clutch(although some people say they're crap clutches) w/ the stock OEM CMC, since it doesn't give enough pressure/stress on the OEM CMC.
But I was talking to Adam from MAPerformance, and he was telling me that the Clutch Masters FX300(stg 3) is actually lighter in pressure. So I'm going to try and running the stock OEM CMC and see how long it holds up. It could either end up in me having to tow my car again, or work really well. And again, Adam doesn't recommend me doing it.. but I guess I'll be one to take the risk. 'Cause the Clutch Master FX300 is more than capable of handling the FP Black w/ a full built motor, supposed to hold up 550-600ish torque.

Here's the damage on my CMC.

 

The CMC's popped out before, but this time, I just can't get the C-Clip on. Maybe I'm just growing frustrated and impatient 'cause it's happened so many time before, but it's a pain in the **** to get it back on.

I don't think my car is drivable even if I got the clip back on, 'cause it was still sinking down BEFORE the clip popped out, so pretty sure it won't help much.