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Originally Posted by SLVRSRFR
I had a BMW E90 before this car, which had a dreaded CDV in it (clutch delay valve) which was even WORSE. It made you feel like you had no idea how to drive stick, even as a seasoned manual driver. It would delay the engagement by a split second and was really hard to get the hang of. I never removed it during the 3 years I had the car, but it was a lot more of an involved job than it was to remove the spring from my BRZ, which was thankfully pretty easy over-all. Even with the spring in, the BRZ clutch was still better than the BMW clutch with that god-awful CDV.
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My IS300 has the same BS. It was inline with the hydraulics and wasn't to bad to delete. You just took it apart and then gut it out, put it back together and bleed. The other problem with my IS300 is it has ridiculous DBW lag. So between that crap on the clutch damper crap and the DBW lag it makes you feel like an idiot. I also owned a G35 Sedan 6MT which had tons of DBW lag too. It also made you feel like an idiot. I remember the guy that bought it went with me for a test drive and drove it like crap. He kept saying, "I promise I know how to drive a manual". I would just laugh and say it's just how the car is. I was glad to see that car go, hated that thing.