Clutch update
I haven’t had much time to drive the car. I’m still under 100 miles on the new clutch, but they’re hard city miles where driving 500 feet is 6 shifts.
The self adjusting clutch mechanism is pretty bizarre. Sometimes it moves the travel all the way to bottom of the pedal, like if I’ve been sitting at a traffic light. Then when I start driving it moves back to the normal spot. I’ve been in the habit of leaving the car in gear at a red light with the clutch pedal depressed, just to keep things normal. I wonder if I disconnect the clutch switch bypass if it will start acting normal again. Since I didn’t do the work, I don’t even know what to reconnect.
In spirited driving the car seems to do great. I can rev 1st gear all the way out, pop the clutch into 2nd, and it grabs like an on/off switch as I get back in the gas. If it works like this for an entire track session, I got what I paid for. Which is a motorsports clutch that acts a little wonky from a start in 1st gear.
But then a few minutes later everything goes to shit. The engagement point moves back to the bottom. The car is hard to get in gear. The clutch pedal travel is like air for the first 40%, then catches, then sticks at the bottom.
It looks somewhat ridiculous breaking this clutch in on city streets for hours, but there is so much weird shit going on in SF that I hardly stand out.
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