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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 02:27 PM
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Can a clutch get burned in a day

I have a 03 g and yesterday let my cousin drive my car for about 30 min. I have not hurt him yet because I didn't my date to see me lose my cool. He is the worse stick driver I have met. Sad thing is he freakin had a stick bmw 5 series (only for a few months and I think I know why.) Now we he came back the I could smell the burned clutch all day. He *** in starts off in 3rd for one and just can't shift. Never again.

Anyway when I was driving home I was on the highway in sixth doing about 80 step on the gas all the way and the car the rpms go up then down a little then up again. THIS NEVER USED TO HAPPEN. WTF COULD HE HAVE DONE. I MIGHT BE ON THE NEWS TODAY.

The clutch has never been changed I bought it used last in 05 but everything has been fine ever since. did i few mods exhaust intake. One more thing I put intake on the stock pipe arm thing until I get my z tube this week had it on for about a week now. Makes a sucking sound for air between 3 and 4k rpm.
 
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 02:32 PM
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I think there's a good chance your clutch is slipping... And I'd imagine that if you treat a clutch poorly enough you can ruin it very quickly.

At 16 I caused what the mechanics called "catastrophic failure" to a clutch on a 98 Mustang GT by downshifting into a gear whose RPMs were too high. I was used to my Honda which could handle such treatment- the Ford was another story.
 
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 02:34 PM
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New clutch wtl. Get checked now or it will eventually go and you'll be dead on the road
 
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 02:54 PM
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My first evo mr clutch lasted only one weeks & 56 miles haha sounds like its time for a new clutch for you
 
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 03:32 PM
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That's more than enough time to fry a clutch if the person doesn't know how to drive it properly...
 
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 03:33 PM
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yeah .. slipping= get a new clutch..

just do it before it gets worse.

I'd recomend the jwt package
 
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 03:35 PM
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just got mine after a day at the track, 20000 miles on the car... oops!
 
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 03:53 PM
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ever notice how most guys go turbo and suddenly there clutch goes up for sale within the week. Man that sucks that family ruined the clutch...
 
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