HORRIBLY burned cluch! Damnit

I know I'm making a lot of dumb newbie-like questions lately but I'm really worried about this. Here's the story, I was trying to do a launch with my girlfriend in the car (trying to impress her lol). I've done a couple ~4.5 rpm launches and I've got both of them pretty good so I was thinking I could do another. Well I reved it tooo high to about 6k+ and dropped it. I think I must have not let the cluch out completely while flooring it all the way to almost redline which was at least a second or more. It must have been burning the whole way cause I don't think it caught the whole time. We were only about a block away from my house and when I pulled in the garage it smelled HORRIBLE. Like you would get neuseous if you stood in the garage for too long. And the smell lasted for at least 2 hours with a fan blowing out the garage door on full blast, and even then you could still smell it pretty bad.

I have absolutely babied my car and clutch up until that so I'm just wondering do you think my cluch at the least has any material left or could it have warped/messed up anything? I'm going to try the old let the clutch out without giving it gas from a stop to see if it grabs at all. Hopefully it does. I do not have the money for a new clutch! :(

PS. I know I'm a complete dumbass for doing this and I need to learn how to drive better, so no need to tell me. :)

DUMBASS LAERN TO DRIVE!!!!! j/k :grinyes: see if it still grabs and just take it easy on it

My first question is, was she impressed? :grinyes:

It's prolly fine. Repititous stupidity is what usually kills parts; I bet it's okay. I did worse to mine when I was learning, then did it on purpose. That was on a 15 year old rx-7, now it's 7 years later and it's still on the road. DSMs are tough, why would it break down on you?

I'd say try it, it'll probably be fine.

DUMBASS LAERN TO DRIVE!!!!! j/k :grinyes:

DUMBASS LEARN TO SPELL!!!!! j/k :grinyes:

But seriously, drive around at 30mph and put the car in 4th gear and give it 75% throttle...if it slowly picks up speed without revving high than your clutch is fine. If it does not pickup speed and just rev high than your screwed.

GL

let it cool off for a day or so. Does the clutch feel really really soft? If so, it will be fine with time probably. You most likely did reduce the life of the clutch significantly though.

lol, the way a guy drives NEVER impresses a woman!

Yeah it does. Mine gets turned on by it. Last night we were coming home, and a newer lancer wanted some. He went in a turn only lane and went straight then to get in front of me. I'm watching, and my girl was like, "Go smoke him." I love it when she says that. We were rolling, and he was just staying back. I slowed down to let him catch up, but he fell back each time I did it. Finally, I shift to 4th, cause I got tired of wasting gas. He goes and takes off. By the time I downshift and everything else, he's in front, cuts me off, and brake checks me. I was pulling on his ass hard by the time he got in front of me, so I flew around him then. She was hot. lol.

So yeah... I does impress the ladies. Maybe it's just the car then.

Yeah it does. Mine gets turned on by it. Last night we were coming home, and a newer lancer wanted some. He went in a turn only lane and went straight then to get in front of me. I'm watching, and my girl was like, "Go smoke him." I love it when she says that. We were rolling, and he was just staying back. I slowed down to let him catch up, but he fell back each time I did it. Finally, I shift to 4th, cause I got tired of wasting gas. He goes and takes off. By the time I downshift and everything else, he's in front, cuts me off, and brake checks me. I was pulling on his ass hard by the time he got in front of me, so I flew around him then. She was hot. lol.

So yeah... I does impress the ladies. Maybe it's just the car then.

lol oh well excuse me then... I need to find a girl like yours! All the girls i've dated are like "slow down!!! Why are you in a rush??!! Do you have to drive like that?? ect....."

That happened to me once(burned the clutch) but I let it cool off and its fine now

It's great. I'm taking her to Hot Import Nights tonight. I'm actually getting ready. She loves cars. Going to the track this summer with me too. She can't wait. lol. I love it. I love her.

^^^ Nice, I'm going to the HIN in boston next month, as well as Atlantic city in June

damn it, they never come around here(southern MN)

my girl loves it when I give it some gas. It drives her insane. Not to mention my car does vibrate a whole lot at idle hahaha.

damn it, they never come around here(southern MN)
You gotta travel buddy, Boston is about 35 minutes from me (if i do the speed limit) so that isn't a problem. Atlantic city is about a good.. 5 hour drive tho.[/b]

I dont feel like driving 10 hours to get to the nearest one, I'm just going to bank on the chance that I might happen to be vacationing (with the talon) in a city that is hosting HIN(like that will ever happen :lol:)

My first question is, was she impressed? :grinyes:
Well the first thing she said was "Oh wow, that put me back into the seat." But I think she might just have been trying to be nice. If I had gotten the launch better I think she would have been. She's more into guys in Jeeps though, not really the speed thing. Launching an AWD is really fun though if you can do it right. :(

HIN was fun tonight. She doesn't know too much about cars, but she likes them. Ill post some pics up when i get them back. Good times. Got some pics of some 420a's turbo-charged. Nice. Got some nice evos too. I just love walking through the parking lot and looking at all the fine cars... (and rice). Then we had a discussion on clutches, and how they work, and how I need one, and flywheels and pressure plates. Great times.

HIN was fun tonight. She doesn't know too much about cars, but she likes them. Ill post some pics up when i get them back. Good times. Got some pics of some 420a's turbo-charged. Nice. Got some nice evos too. I just love walking through the parking lot and looking at all the fine cars... (and rice). Then we had a discussion on clutches, and how they work, and how I need one, and flywheels and pressure plates. Great times.


sounds like fun! You said you were walking through the parking lot and looking at nice cars.. it wasn't a inside event?? I'm in need of a clutch also.... well actually I need to replace my throw out bearing, but almost all of the Mechanics I've talk to said they won't do the job unless there replacing the clutch itself.

HIN was fun tonight. She doesn't know too much about cars, but she likes them. Ill post some pics up when i get them back. Good times. Got some pics of some 420a's turbo-charged. Nice. Got some nice evos too. I just love walking through the parking lot and looking at all the fine cars... (and rice). Then we had a discussion on clutches, and how they work, and how I need one, and flywheels and pressure plates. Great times.
did you see a purple talon with lambo doors and a bunch of exterior mods? If so it was my friend's. I wanted to go but ended up not being able to.

I think I have a pic of it. My girl has all the pics on her camera still. There WAS lots of nice cars inside. 2 Skylines, one was like a 96-98 or so. Looked sweet as hell. I've never seen a slightly older one like that. Some hotties were all over it too. Very nice. Just walking from my car to the show through the lot was hot too. Very nice cars all lined up parked all nice and shit. Very sweet. Some dude in a RSX was smiling all gay at me when we were on the expressway going there. Then, he ends up parking 2 spots away from me, still smiling like a prick. I almost kicked his ass. Good times