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Originally Posted by RossGA
Clutches need 500-1K miles to break in properly.
What this tells me is he didn't break his clutch in, and went right to hard launching.
Best way to break a clutch in...spend a few hundred miles in city traffic driving it from light to light and treating it like an econobox.
After the car has been launched a few hundred times at low RPMs....the clutch is probably seated well....
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When I broke in my new clutch in my other car, I drove like a granny for nearly 4k miles just to ensure that it had enough low rpm, low load take-offs. It was painful. But in that specific platform, people that run that clutch burn it out after 20k miles or so. It got so bad that the manufacturer (Clutchmasters) had to change the disc material for that application. Im still running the old material and Im at 57k miles and counting. When I replaced the tranny around 40k miles (damn diff bearings gave out), it didn't look glazed and still had plenty of meat on it.