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Originally Posted by Slysdexia

It's cantilevered on a secondary lever in the pedal assembly. it fights you right at first, making the pedal stiffer, then helps push it down as you get further into pedal travel, making it oddly light and sensationless.

With the spring, it's brieflyfirm-soft-soft-soft with no feel as to where the bite point is.

Without the spring, it's soft-firmer-firm-soft as you pass the bite point.

I went from jerkily shifting and almost stalling at lights (which was embarrassing for me because I've been daily driving standard shift for 6 years) to suddenly being able to make glass smooth shifts and starts with quick, painless heel-toe downshifts without having to put any thought into it.

Coming from the grapefruit launcher (you couldn't hold it down in traffic, your leg would go numb) of a clutch in my '94 4.0 Ranger to the almost delicate (by comparison) but very communicative clutch in my '00 Civic DX, the sensation-less clutch in my FR-S was difficult to get a handle on. It was also really at odds with the rest of the car. So I drive maybe two and a half hours with the spring in and couldn't take it.

Removing the spring isn't something that's really reversible, but unless you've never driven stick before this car, you won't want to.

how much extra force do you need to push the clutch pedal? 2x?