Question for supercharged owners
09-16-2009, 06:48 PM
#1
5th Gear Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 3,401
Question for supercharged owners
Right, some of you know my car, but just to recap:
06 GT, 12,500 miles from new, STOCK clutch, had Whipple HO on from around 4,000 mile mark. Makes around 450RWHP
I don't drag race it, NEVER power shift and although I have taken it on road course track days, I'm very easy on the clutch, ie, in or out, not dragging it etc.
The question: I know it's not something you want to do normally but somebody must have done it - Can you induce clutch slip in 4th/5th gear?
Today I was out on a back road on the way home and during a WOT run in third gear she broke traction slightly on the slightly dusty asphalt, I guess it was at around 75mph, so no sweat, I merely grabbed 4th and kept on it, I definately felt/saw some small slippage.
Of course that bugged me incredibly so I had to try it again, and sure enough I can coax slippage in 4th. Depending at what RPM/throttle I engage the clutch, I can actually get the clutch to lose the motor versus clutch battle.
Now I've got to be hitting it hard to do that but really, is that something I should expect with 455rwhp+ and a stock clutch? I have felt it before, on the way to the road course of all times/places, but she ran fine on the course with no issues and that was probably 1000km's ago.
The other thing could be that the slave cylinder isn't fully releasing, i notice the bite point is much higher of late... Is there an easy place i can easily crack the line for a split second to release any hydraulic pressure which might be still in the slave ??
06 GT, 12,500 miles from new, STOCK clutch, had Whipple HO on from around 4,000 mile mark. Makes around 450RWHP
I don't drag race it, NEVER power shift and although I have taken it on road course track days, I'm very easy on the clutch, ie, in or out, not dragging it etc.
The question: I know it's not something you want to do normally but somebody must have done it - Can you induce clutch slip in 4th/5th gear?
Today I was out on a back road on the way home and during a WOT run in third gear she broke traction slightly on the slightly dusty asphalt, I guess it was at around 75mph, so no sweat, I merely grabbed 4th and kept on it, I definately felt/saw some small slippage.
Of course that bugged me incredibly so I had to try it again, and sure enough I can coax slippage in 4th. Depending at what RPM/throttle I engage the clutch, I can actually get the clutch to lose the motor versus clutch battle.
Now I've got to be hitting it hard to do that but really, is that something I should expect with 455rwhp+ and a stock clutch? I have felt it before, on the way to the road course of all times/places, but she ran fine on the course with no issues and that was probably 1000km's ago.
The other thing could be that the slave cylinder isn't fully releasing, i notice the bite point is much higher of late... Is there an easy place i can easily crack the line for a split second to release any hydraulic pressure which might be still in the slave ??
09-16-2009, 08:48 PM
#2
5th Gear Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Maryland
Posts: 4,955
The 5th gear slip is the reccomended way to test your clutch though i can't see it going bad @ only 12k miles, your powerlevel might have something to do with that. Also i think you have a hydraulic clutch, were still all on cables.(this is the 96-04 section) there is a section dedicated to s197s.
But im sure someone here can probably help more than i can.
Edit: i see you have 2800 post i can only assume u accidently posted in the wrong section lol.
But im sure someone here can probably help more than i can.
Edit: i see you have 2800 post i can only assume u accidently posted in the wrong section lol.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Luke9222
4.6L General Discussion
19
10-22-2015 11:55 PM
jaiidutch
Motor Swap Section
2
09-14-2015 10:29 AM
Boostaddict
Lethal Performance
2
09-08-2015 09:56 PM