It sounds and feels like I'm about to roast through clutch #3.
According to the SPEC website, my clutch is only torque rated to 417 which is just barely above what I'm making. That's not good. On top of that, it recommends a break-in period of 450 miles. That sounds like pure insanity to me. 450 miles of break-in would probably not take too long if I still lived in Lisle, but I can't go anywhere in Indiana without long stretches of highway or interstate. I think I only drove it about 200 miles before I started giving it short bursts of WOT, and it honestly felt fine until after the dyno when I finally started giving it the business.
I was in denial until now, but installing the shifter and actually rowing through the gears at WOT helped me realize that my crappy 215s are not what's causing the squealing. Am I not being patient enough with the break-in? Whatever it is, I'm tired of pulling this T5 out. I might as well have a 4t65e. What clutches are manual 3800 guys with lots of torque using? I saw that RAM offers a couple dual friction units that should be up more than up to the task, but their rating is in HP which sounds irrelevant to me. Spec offers two clutches rated higher than mine, but I'm hesitant to try more clutches from the same brand of stuff I'm having trouble with. Even then, I'm not entirely convinced that the clutch is the soul problem. Is break-in super critical? Is there anything special I need to do to set-up my hydraulics besides bleeding? Is there any reason to upgrade to adjustable stuff?
I feel defeated. Was this car not meant to be or am I just progressing the engine further than the clutch is able to keep up with? I'm kinda just ranting here, but I'm open for discussion in case I'm doing something dumb during my break-in and installation which honestly just entails torquing the new parts down without any measurements and then going for a couple hundred miles of soft driving.
...sometimes, man. I wish I could strangle a car.
According to the SPEC website, my clutch is only torque rated to 417 which is just barely above what I'm making. That's not good. On top of that, it recommends a break-in period of 450 miles. That sounds like pure insanity to me. 450 miles of break-in would probably not take too long if I still lived in Lisle, but I can't go anywhere in Indiana without long stretches of highway or interstate. I think I only drove it about 200 miles before I started giving it short bursts of WOT, and it honestly felt fine until after the dyno when I finally started giving it the business.
I was in denial until now, but installing the shifter and actually rowing through the gears at WOT helped me realize that my crappy 215s are not what's causing the squealing. Am I not being patient enough with the break-in? Whatever it is, I'm tired of pulling this T5 out. I might as well have a 4t65e. What clutches are manual 3800 guys with lots of torque using? I saw that RAM offers a couple dual friction units that should be up more than up to the task, but their rating is in HP which sounds irrelevant to me. Spec offers two clutches rated higher than mine, but I'm hesitant to try more clutches from the same brand of stuff I'm having trouble with. Even then, I'm not entirely convinced that the clutch is the soul problem. Is break-in super critical? Is there anything special I need to do to set-up my hydraulics besides bleeding? Is there any reason to upgrade to adjustable stuff?
I feel defeated. Was this car not meant to be or am I just progressing the engine further than the clutch is able to keep up with? I'm kinda just ranting here, but I'm open for discussion in case I'm doing something dumb during my break-in and installation which honestly just entails torquing the new parts down without any measurements and then going for a couple hundred miles of soft driving.
...sometimes, man. I wish I could strangle a car.