Stock Replacment Clutch Gone Already???
11-03-2005, 01:03 PM
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Stock Replacment Clutch Gone Already??? I had my stock clutch replaced under warranty 7 months (1400 miles) ago. I had smoked it at the track, to many hot laps 
. Since then I have taken it to the track one time (maybe 8 runs), letting it cool down this time between runs. No problems. I might have gotten on it hard twice after that. Still no problems. The other day while pulling out onto the highway, a little hard, nothing crazy, I thought I smelled my clutch. Then yesterday, at the same place, I smelled it again. So after work I wanted to get on it real hard to see what would happen. Sure enough, 1-2 shift the clutch slipped and there was that wonderful burnt clutch smell 
What the hell is going on here? 1400 miles on a stock replacment clutch and only the mods I have in my sig.?
Am I doing somthing wrong or does this happen often with the stock clutch? BTW 18300 miles on car now.
. Since then I have taken it to the track one time (maybe 8 runs), letting it cool down this time between runs. No problems. I might have gotten on it hard twice after that. Still no problems. The other day while pulling out onto the highway, a little hard, nothing crazy, I thought I smelled my clutch. Then yesterday, at the same place, I smelled it again. So after work I wanted to get on it real hard to see what would happen. Sure enough, 1-2 shift the clutch slipped and there was that wonderful burnt clutch smell What the hell is going on here? 1400 miles on a stock replacment clutch and only the mods I have in my sig.?Am I doing somthing wrong or does this happen often with the stock clutch? BTW 18300 miles on car now.
11-07-2005, 01:23 AM
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I'm not suprised. With 16K on my car I had about the same mods as you and my clutch was slipping noticably on the 1-2 shift. Soon after I added a TR224 cam and a tune....yep, that killed the stock clutch within 5 track passes. This was launching OFF-IDLE and on street radials too 
The stock one lasted 17.8K for me. I said to hell with it and installed a Textralia OZ700. So far my problems have been solved 
The stock one lasted 17.8K for me. I said to hell with it and installed a Textralia OZ700. So far my problems have been solved Trending Topics
11-07-2005, 08:41 AM
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Well, the stock clutch is not the greatest at holding much more than 300 or so horsepower. It's all in how you treat it though. For example, my car is making ~400rwhp/~400rwtq and my stock clutch is finally giving out (never been replaced), but my car has 65k miles on it, not all highway either. Either way, upgrade to a better clutch next time you go to replace it. Spec, ram, textralia, etc...they all make excellent replacements for the stocker.