background:First Manual car, had it for just over 6 months. Learned how to drive stick pretty easily and fast, only stalled the car a total of 4 times in the first 2 days of ownership,(literally stalled twice on my way home from the dealer
that was rough) only grinded twice.
I notice the crunchy-ness but its does not bother me at all. It smoothed out after maybe 3-4k miles, then I switched to Motul 300 and I actually could feel it even more, especially when cold. *regret* ("cold" being Socal 40's, 50's in the early morning)
on top of that.... I used to be able to get into 1st and 2nd easily, before switching from stock gear oil, when driving to work in the morning after its been sitting all night. Now i'm only able to easily if double clutching. Strange right? everybody says the opposite.
so now as i leaving my housing community i drive slowwwww and @ around 2k-2.5k rpm in 1st or 2nd gear. that seems to warm the trans up quickly (also helps warm up the car well, low load higher rpm/oil pressure)
I might go back to stock fluids for giggles even though i have 6 quarts of motul sitting around. or i might try throwing in a little bit of redline shockproof. not sure need to do more research.
otherwise the transmission is just crunchy/knuckly. been boosting for over 1k now (10,500 miles total)and it seems to be more crunchy and knuckly, going to change the fluid soon and see whats up.
wont be upgrading the clutch because the stock clutch holds power up to my goals. and plus i'd rather fly/burn up clutches(consumables) then destroy anything else along the drivetrain. i'd rather be swapping out oem clutches more often.