Car Trouble Slipping Clutch??? Not Sure, Help!
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Car Trouble Slipping Clutch??? Not Sure, Help!
I was driving for 2 hours to NY, car was fine
Got HKS Racing intake installed and small Oddyssy battery installed as well.
Turned the car on and try to drive it, once it reaches like 3000 rpms and the blowoff valve comes in action, the car does not really accelerate at all.
I had a hard time getting to 70 mph. My friend's say it is a SLIPPING CLUTCH and that I need to get a new one. MY CAR IS SORT OF NEW 15,000 miles, but it is my first stick shift car.
I'm ready to buy a new clutch ACT Street disc tomorrow, But before I do i just want to make sure that it is my clutch and I heard my dealership warranty does not cover the clutch. PLEASE HELP AND ASSIST BEFORE I ORDER MY NEW CLUTCH!!! thanks
Got HKS Racing intake installed and small Oddyssy battery installed as well.
Turned the car on and try to drive it, once it reaches like 3000 rpms and the blowoff valve comes in action, the car does not really accelerate at all.
I had a hard time getting to 70 mph. My friend's say it is a SLIPPING CLUTCH and that I need to get a new one. MY CAR IS SORT OF NEW 15,000 miles, but it is my first stick shift car.
I'm ready to buy a new clutch ACT Street disc tomorrow, But before I do i just want to make sure that it is my clutch and I heard my dealership warranty does not cover the clutch. PLEASE HELP AND ASSIST BEFORE I ORDER MY NEW CLUTCH!!! thanks
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Regardless, here's a couple of things.
First, put the car in 5th gear at about 40 MPH. Hold that speed for a few seconds and then floor it without downshifting. Watch the tachometer rise as well as the spedometer. Keep in the throttle until you are around 4000 RPM's, or about 80 MPH. If the tachometer doesn't jump up about 500 RPM's or more without a coresponding equavalent rise on the spedometer, then your clutch is fine. Do this two or 3 times if you don't notice anything out of the ordinary the first time.
If the tachometer DOES jump up without the spedometer also progressively increasing as it should, get off the throttle and discontinue the test. The more you beat on it, the worse it will get. Go home and order that new clutch.
If your clutch isn't slipping and the car just has little to no response at WOT while under boost (above 3000 RPM's), you've probably got a very bad boost leak. If I had to guess, the compressor bypass valve (not a blow off valve) is incorrectly installed, or could actually be missing completely. I'd really need some more info about your current situation, including everything you did during the instalation of the intake.
Last edited by 90GSX-03EVO; Apr 8, 2007 at 05:22 PM.
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do you have a boost gauge, and if you do is it showing any boost. sounds like a boost leak to me, especially since you said the car was fine before. the battery and intake wouldn't cause a slipping clutch, but putting an intake on could cause a boost leak.
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