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Do any of you guys get a SQUEAL when feathering your clutch into 1st?

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Old 04-02-2009, 12:12 AM
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Default Do any of you guys get a SQUEAL when feathering your clutch into 1st?

my car makes a SQEAL noise when i'm really stretching/feathering the engagement into 1st gear... not taking off fast or anything, but barely putting along in like a parking lot or something...

my clutch setup is an aluminum flywheel with a centerforce DFX clutch disk (puck design) and clutchmasters clutch assembly
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My Spec 5 does the same thing.
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So does my Tex Exo-Skel Twin. Just try to minimize it.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you probably don't launch the car hard much? There is most likely some fluid/dust/metallic material/etc on one of the friction surfaces. A couple hard clutch dumps in first gear will take care of it for you.

My Spec 3 did the same thing for almost a year. Finally took it to the track, a couple 4500 RPM launches on Nittos and it never did it again. Wish I had known earlier in the life of the clutch. It's a fairly common issue you run into with many aftermarket clutches.
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k good to know i'm not the only one with this problem... didn't know if it was something I should be worrying about or what...

and yea PSM, I hardly ever launch it hard... really never to be honest...



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