View Poll Results: Best way to break in a new clutch?
Granny shift (no boost) for 3k miles.
5
19.23%
Drive like a respsible person (boost 1-2 times / 50mi trip)
12
46.15%
Drive normally (boost every OTHER stoplight).
4
15.38%
Drag launch every chance you get for 500 miles.
5
19.23%
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POLL : New clutch break-in ... best way?
08-01-2006, 09:46 PM
#1
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POLL : New clutch break-in ... best way?
Im bringing her home this week, with new spec stg 2 clutch and LSd. Whats everyones opinions on best way to drive it initially? 
08-01-2006, 10:37 PM
#2
Three Wheelin'
Just drive it nice and easy for a hundred miles or so (in stop and go stuff, city, etc) and you'll be fine. I put a clutch in my GTi, put about 300 miles on mine and then took it to California Speedway and beat the living crap out of it. She held up just fine and still drives as smooth as the day I put her in (holds 20 psi too 
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08-02-2006, 07:37 AM
#5
Rennlist Member
Is the Spec Stage 2 disc a Kevlar material. If so it will need upwards of 600-800 miles for a proper (seasoned) break-in. Once you toast Kevlar it will chatter often and literally ash and get really hard. I have a Feramic disc (iron and impregnated garaphite) now in my Turbo (after toasting my Kevlar) and it takes about 500 miles of Stop and Go Driving to break in.
Was your flywheel resurfaced? If so was it used on a lathe or on a mill (using cutters)?
Was your flywheel resurfaced? If so was it used on a lathe or on a mill (using cutters)?
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08-02-2006, 05:52 PM
#8
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I checked SPEC's website and the Stage 2 is Kevlar. I would ask whomever resurfaced your flywheel what method they used. The Lathe (or record) finish will eat up the Kevlar prematurely.
08-02-2006, 08:56 PM
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We recommend 500 miles of stop and go city driving (not highway) and as little boost as possible. Obviously the boost might come on a little going up a long hill or passing someone, but you can't stomp on it.
We have installed a ton of Spec clutches, until they had a little fiasco, and we stopped using them.
We have installed a ton of Spec clutches, until they had a little fiasco, and we stopped using them.
08-03-2006, 02:56 AM
#10
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I voted granny shift because I don't know what boost is. NA, baby.
I try to shift so that the clutch rubs as little as possible, so very jerky starts and often slow too.
I try to shift so that the clutch rubs as little as possible, so very jerky starts and often slow too.
