A story of the little evo that couldnt....
Try it, put 5 people in your car, pack your trunk with two bags and try and make it up a hill without feathering your clutch. I bet by the time you get to the top you will be breathing more clutch than air.
I know how to drive a manual car, i have never owned a non manual car. I know I could have feathered the clutch to get up the hill.
I know how to drive a manual car, i have never owned a non manual car. I know I could have feathered the clutch to get up the hill.
just slip the clutch a bit more. i live on a 50 degree hill and i have to do this all the time when backing up and going up the hill. even my permit driver son can make it up the hill without damaging the clutch or drivetrain. i also have a family of four that i have to drive with.
You live on a 50 degree hill?
Hahahaha!
How about this, if your hill is 50 degrees, I will give you my paychecks for one year...
Quite the exaggeration there dude..
Sheesh...
Hahahaha!
How about this, if your hill is 50 degrees, I will give you my paychecks for one year...
Quite the exaggeration there dude..
Sheesh...
. Never had to do anything weird or out of the ordinary - the car just goes as expected. Once or twice I used the handbrake because there was snow on the ground, but that's it.
Last edited by InitialE; Jun 13, 2008 at 03:18 PM.
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You better be careful what you say. I know my grandma in puerto rico lived on top of a lil hill and it was at least 50 degrees clime to get there. I know cuz i broke my arm from going down the damn thing this was back in the days lol.
Apparently not. The guy posted he and his beginner permit son get the car up and down the hill with ease. Like I said, it's properly modulating the clutch that's the issue here, not the car.
30-45 degrees is actually really steep, an incline like that would be a black diamond on a ski slope. I am pretty sure they wouldnt make a garage with more than 20-25 degree slope because even that is steep as hell.. but seriously got to slip the clutch as others have said until you have enough momentum to not bog down the motor... or go buy something with an auto tranny or more displacement 
its def the gearing and how you drive it, and not the lack of power.
its def the gearing and how you drive it, and not the lack of power.
Your logic is quite flawed.
Or is that the logic one used back in the days? 
i had a similar experience, i think the hill was about 40 degrees? (not sure I'm bad at calculating haha)
anyways i had 4 people in it + me, one of them was a bit big, and it was my first time in a hill that steep haha, i stalled 2 times before i could get it up. But basically, like what others said, i had to slip the clutch some what to get it up and going without having people to come down or use the e-brake (which i haven't practiced with or know how to haha)
anyways i had 4 people in it + me, one of them was a bit big, and it was my first time in a hill that steep haha, i stalled 2 times before i could get it up. But basically, like what others said, i had to slip the clutch some what to get it up and going without having people to come down or use the e-brake (which i haven't practiced with or know how to haha)
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On the day I got my X, I was stopped at an intersection were the street I was crossing was raised up about 6-8 feet above the level of the street I was on (country roads). When the light turned green, I got honked at because I couldn't get over the hill!
My wife had a few choice words about the @&*@ty $35k car I'd just bought that didn't have enough power to get over a little hill.
Now I just slip the clutch a bit, because the X is worthless below 3k rpm.
My wife had a few choice words about the @&*@ty $35k car I'd just bought that didn't have enough power to get over a little hill.
Now I just slip the clutch a bit, because the X is worthless below 3k rpm.
This was the biggest learning curve when buying a small displacement 2.0L car.
My project was a torque filled 2.8L all-motor VR6 Volkswagen GTi, and my daily was a modified regular cab 5.9L Dakota R/T, the beater is an auto 98' Camry XLE V6.
The first time I tried to pull out quickly into traffic in the Evo without thinking hard enough to slip the clutch a bit I almost had a heart attack. Floored it and played the waiting game for the much loved boost .... while hoping I didn't get rear ended!
2.0L Love over here though
My project was a torque filled 2.8L all-motor VR6 Volkswagen GTi, and my daily was a modified regular cab 5.9L Dakota R/T, the beater is an auto 98' Camry XLE V6.
The first time I tried to pull out quickly into traffic in the Evo without thinking hard enough to slip the clutch a bit I almost had a heart attack.
Floored it and played the waiting game for the much loved boost .... while hoping I didn't get rear ended! 2.0L Love over here though
This was the biggest learning curve when buying a small displacement 2.0L car.
My project was a torque filled 2.8L all-motor VR6 Volkswagen GTi, and my daily was a modified regular cab 5.9L Dakota R/T, the beater is an auto 98' Camry XLE V6.
The first time I tried to pull out quickly into traffic in the Evo without thinking hard enough to slip the clutch a bit I almost had a heart attack. Floored it and played the waiting game for the much loved boost .... while hoping I didn't get rear ended!
2.0L Love over here though
My project was a torque filled 2.8L all-motor VR6 Volkswagen GTi, and my daily was a modified regular cab 5.9L Dakota R/T, the beater is an auto 98' Camry XLE V6.
The first time I tried to pull out quickly into traffic in the Evo without thinking hard enough to slip the clutch a bit I almost had a heart attack.
Floored it and played the waiting game for the much loved boost .... while hoping I didn't get rear ended! 2.0L Love over here though
