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Originally Posted by kludger
Don't sweat it too much, I had similar worries with my first stick a '90 Civic Si, and I had it for 130,000 miles and never had to change the clutch ever...
If you are nice to the clutch it should last fine, only people who abuse it, wear it out prematurely, and often it's the experienced stick drivers that do the stupid stuff.
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Originally Posted by Wattage
Interesting.
I always thought just from the mechanical construction of the automatic gear box, ie using the torque converter "slushbox", that it was naturally less efficient at power transfer than a manual transmission with a clutch.
I mean I guess real, tested numbers don't lie, but generally is this not the case?
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it is! it's because the gears are enclosed in an "oil bath",and a certain amount of 'slippage" is inherent in the design no matter how well it's engineered.a
"direct drive" manual has a miniscule amount of slippage compared to a "slush box",and the gear ratios in a manual are different too.