Twisted 87lxi
08-11-2002, 05:40 AM
Alright, heres a little story for ya. Last summer I was out at the races (street races) w/ my friends and my friend Keith wanted to race me in his CRX but I really wasn't in the mood, so my other friend begged if he could so I let him. Well he had this smooth idea to partially hold in the clutch while racing to help the engine rev up faster, thus giving him faster exceleration, but in turn he literally destroyed my clutch (stock 14 yr old clutch).
About a month later I had my car towed to a clutch shop and had the clutch replaced, it came to around $650 (that includes labor), about 80% of which I had to pay for even though it was my friend's fault, although that doesn't matter now.
Well, when the guys at the clutch shop installed it, they must have messed up on it or something because I could tell from the first night that I got it back that something was still messed up with it. Like the car would just be sitting there reving and I wouldn't be going anywhere (this happened off and on), obviously the same symptoms as a blown clutch. I babied that clutch for the first 10,000 miles which I was instructed to do to ensure that the clutch would settle in right, etc. But it still had that problem after 10,000 miles, so I brought it down to em and told them the problem, they kept the car for about an hour (doesn't seem like long enough to inspect a clutch throughly) and said it was all good. Make an already long story short, the problem persisted and I took it back to them 2 more times and both times they told me it was working but it obviously wasn't. Well skip to last night and poof! my new "working" clutch blew out, and my car is literally unmovable, it was so bad that my friend had to push me home in his car for 8 blocks on a flat surface. Now I don't know whether or not to tow my car down to the clutch shop and even trust them a second time to fix what they messed up from the start, just to mess it up again, or if i should finally charge my friend the extra money for fucking my car up in the first place.
Anyway, to make my point clear is that im completely pissed at the whole situation and fed up with that clutch shop so i'm deciding that with the help of my experienced friend i'm going to replace my clutch myself to 1. Make sure that it's done RIGHT, and 2. Save me from having to pay $75 an hour for labor. So i've been looking around for some decent clutches and I ran across clutchmasters.com and they offer up to a Stage 5 clutch for our cars Here (http://www.clutchmasters.com/shop/?page=shop/browse&MakeModelID=30336&MakeID=57&Engine=2.0L&FromYear=1986&ToYear=1989). I'm not to experienced w/ this side of cars and obviously a 400% efficient stage 5 clutch is over doing it but a stage 0 is the equivalent to a stock clutch, so in your opinions, which do you think would be probably the most dependable (long lasting but still race efficient) clutch?
Sorry this was so long.......
About a month later I had my car towed to a clutch shop and had the clutch replaced, it came to around $650 (that includes labor), about 80% of which I had to pay for even though it was my friend's fault, although that doesn't matter now.
Well, when the guys at the clutch shop installed it, they must have messed up on it or something because I could tell from the first night that I got it back that something was still messed up with it. Like the car would just be sitting there reving and I wouldn't be going anywhere (this happened off and on), obviously the same symptoms as a blown clutch. I babied that clutch for the first 10,000 miles which I was instructed to do to ensure that the clutch would settle in right, etc. But it still had that problem after 10,000 miles, so I brought it down to em and told them the problem, they kept the car for about an hour (doesn't seem like long enough to inspect a clutch throughly) and said it was all good. Make an already long story short, the problem persisted and I took it back to them 2 more times and both times they told me it was working but it obviously wasn't. Well skip to last night and poof! my new "working" clutch blew out, and my car is literally unmovable, it was so bad that my friend had to push me home in his car for 8 blocks on a flat surface. Now I don't know whether or not to tow my car down to the clutch shop and even trust them a second time to fix what they messed up from the start, just to mess it up again, or if i should finally charge my friend the extra money for fucking my car up in the first place.
Anyway, to make my point clear is that im completely pissed at the whole situation and fed up with that clutch shop so i'm deciding that with the help of my experienced friend i'm going to replace my clutch myself to 1. Make sure that it's done RIGHT, and 2. Save me from having to pay $75 an hour for labor. So i've been looking around for some decent clutches and I ran across clutchmasters.com and they offer up to a Stage 5 clutch for our cars Here (http://www.clutchmasters.com/shop/?page=shop/browse&MakeModelID=30336&MakeID=57&Engine=2.0L&FromYear=1986&ToYear=1989). I'm not to experienced w/ this side of cars and obviously a 400% efficient stage 5 clutch is over doing it but a stage 0 is the equivalent to a stock clutch, so in your opinions, which do you think would be probably the most dependable (long lasting but still race efficient) clutch?
Sorry this was so long.......