What's going on all...I'm new to the thread, been meaning to join.
Anyway, I have a Feb.89' Z and I have a question about my clutch. I had a clutch put in by nissan about a year and half ago that completly went bad after one year. To the point of no engagement of gears. Then I had another clutch put in which chattered through first and reverse a week after installation. I had it warranty replaced two months ago and it has not performed the way The stock one did since. Are the clutches from this model year this tempermental or could there be an underlying problem...Besides operator error. I know how to drive.

somebody hit me back!

what's been done to the car? is it an n/a or turbo? might need to go to a stronger clutch if it's eating your stock ones... or it might have something to do with the transmission... or nissan might just suck at installing them... riding the clutch can burn them out pretty quick... do you do a lot of stop and go driving?

Generally if you keep eating clutch disks you have a warped flywheel or pressure plate or both.

Thank you Albert thats what I was going to say. Have your pressure plate and your fly wheel checked. hopefully the pressure plate is fine....

And don't take it back to the A**hole that did it in the first place

And don't take it back to the A**hole that did it in the first place

Important lesson to learn. I had a tranny problem once with an automatic (completely not a Z, but tranny problem none the less). I had the torque converter replaced at a shop that specialized in transmissions!!!. All of a sudden the tranny just didn't shift the same. It shifted up too quick and wouldn't kick down. The shop told me there could be a serious problem and the tranny might need rebuilding. They wouldnb't be able to look at it for a week. I stopped by at a body shop where I had some work done and asked the guy I dealt with if he had any idea. "Pop the hood." Within 10 seconds he reconnected the Kick down lever to the throttle. I didn't know what that was at the time,...16 still pretty green. In case you don't know that's a cable that connects directly to the throttle to tell the transmission how much gas you're giving it. Simple stuff. Thus started my learnin' in the world of automobiles.
The moral: If your car shifted fine before for a long time, then something was done wrong when you got it back. Unless you modify the transmission or put in a different model it should shift the same and act the same not withstanding a worn out clutch. Just because you take it somewhere doesn't mean they know what they are doing all the time. Almost everything I've learned about working on cars is from having to fix mistakes that someone I paid made. Make 'em get it right, and if they can't, make them pay someone who can.

I appreciate all of the input...and to answer a few questions, it is an N/A with no real performance mods. I put the K&N intake on it but despite the 100 extra horsepower it gave me (yeah) It shouldn't have affected the performance of my clutch. Now that the issue of the flywheel comes up, the guy did say he resurfaced it instead of replacing it. I think I will put in the centerforce clutch myself when I get some time off this summer.

tahst what he said for all u know he could have just slapped it back in and didnt do anything to it...


thats one reason im glad i do all my own work so if something goes wrong i know what has been done and who to blame lol