Tru ballers I went autoxing this weekend and at a hard turn I downshifted to first going about 30 mph. My clutch seeemd to have gotten stuck or somethign whiel i was gassing teh crap out of my poor fc all of a sudden i smell that signature sound of butrned clutch and saw white smoke coming from the dash... teh smell lsted about 2 hours... or so it was horrible... then right after that i dorifted one turn and the car stalled... then i strate dit back up now teh idle is kinda shakky. what hppened i didnt hear apex pop.. maybe an oil seal or coolant seal?

 

What does this mean? I feel old...

Obviously, you already know that your cutch is either dead, or badly worn. It sounds like you had a hydraulic failure, though. Have you checked out the master and slave cylinder? How is the shifting since then? I'm sure you know the best way to determine if you have a seal failure is with a compression test. If that's fine, you still may have popped your rear oil control ring, although I dont' think I've ever heard of it happening. I'm sure one of the more experienced guys will know more about that..

I'd start with the obvious: check your hydraulics, check compression, and most likely yank the tranny out to check out the clutch...

Let us know how you make out.

 

you should try rev matching, before you go into first at 20 mph you need to have probly 4000 rpms.

 

more like 5500.....
rev match should be around 6000

1st from 30mph?

try 7000rpm....

 

These are obviously farrrr above good shifting points, but it gives you an idea/// Do the math yerself, make sure you also adjust for final gearing


390 Gearing:

1st


2nd


3rd

 

wat car you Running? 70 in 2nd, holy ****, and 3rd...

 

He's got a '89 GTU. The scary thing is that he was driving and taking the pictures

 

the shifting is a lil bit harder... i bought brand new slave and master cylinders... about 1 year ago... I dont know how to check them. Ill do a compression check tomorrow morning

 

all i have to say is

wtf.....n ur not scared of blowing ur engine????

 

If you down shift, do you just let the clutch fly??? Or do you "reverse" fan it?? In other words allow the rpm to stay down until the speed bleeds off and you can let the clutch go all the way out. I usually hold some pressure on the clutch until the RPMs reach acceptable levels b4 letting the clutch fly.

 

I would check the hydraulic's. I replaced the clutch on my car and I still had smoke. When I replace the clutch plate it didn't look that bad. I put in a new slave cylinder and replace hose. bleed the system and the problem went away.

 

I'm just upset that I didn't get the learn the meaning of the term "Tru ballers"....

 

^me too!!

 

i think apex went boom

 

DUDE! THATS FUKIN sweet! haha
converted auto?
same here... except my car doesnt make nay power up there, but i think that sclogged cat

 

Well i revved teh **** out of it whiel shiftng into first... anyways it doenst smoke at all but i can still smell burned clutch from the engine bay. By hadraulics you guys mean just the slave and master cylinders? or mechanical crap with in the tranny? Like i sai dis not slipping either it just feels slower for some reason.

 

tru ballers means like TRu rotary playaz

 

by hydraulics, we meant the master/slave cylinder and supporting lines.. You may want to check your tranny fluid level, also, since yo u're going to be under there anyway.. it's possible you overfilled it last time you put fluid in, and it caused a leak on the tranny side of things....

Where is the application form to become a "TRu rotary playaz"?

 

I just want to use the term Truballers at the office!! The other honkeys would think I'm "phat" for using such a term. right now they just think I'm fat.

In the meeting room discussing market penetration and I pop off "now, you truballers will understand this concept of product identification......." Ok maybe not at the office.

 

At the engineering meetings: "Thanks to the Tru Ballers Tim and Seth, we've managed to cut down the scrap on board A03023 by nearly 34%!"

maybe not...

 

AHAHAH i think tru baller sworks mangs!!