I was driving hard yesterday in 4th at about 13-14 psi at 100 mph and 6000 rpms. All of a sudden the car had no power. It felt like I put the car in nuetral at wot. The rps flew up and the car did nothing. I took my foot of the gas and popped it into nuetral and let the car slow down to about 60 mph and put it back to fourth and the car drove fine... Now I can reproduce this consistanly at lower rpms and less boost. It's not the turbos b/c when the car loses power it holds whatever psi it was at. So is my clutch dying and just not gripping?

-Matt

 

It's your clutch. Time to get an ACT street/strip.

 

Did you smell anything??? Either way its more than likely your clutch

 

Yup. There's a slight chance that you may have just glazed the clutch, and it *may* get better. I did this on a supercharged miata a few years ago, and the car is fine on that same clutch now... and it did smell funny outside the car a few days after doing that. I had to pop the clutch a couple of times to blast off the glaze. I knew the clutch should have had some life left in it.

If you really toasted your clutch, which is what I and probably everyone else on here suspects, poping the clutch will obviously just make things worse.

Were you shifting and engaging the clutch when it slipped?

 

definitly your clutch.

 

Thanks for the replies...

Yep... I could even smell it the next morning. Smelled like something got cooked.

nope.

I read somewhere (last night...too late of course) that the stock clutch is only good for about 350 hp at the flywheel. Is this true? My car easily exceeds this at 14 psi. I guess I had it coming. Also, it's the original stock clutch w/ 59k on it.

 

i have the same problem. i am taking my car to peter pherells on monday. i post the same type of question on a thread that says "need help please!" and the response i recieved from other forume members is that i need a new clutch.