Feels sluggish after clutch pedal adjustment

[brianhj]

So I adjusted my clutch pedal (lowered it, less travel) last night and it's about even with my brake pedal, if not a LITTLE lower. Also getting the fuel pump chirp (I'm at 700 mi)

My car feels sluggish today, like it's draggin ass. It's not speeding up as fast as it normally does (even though I'm revving it) and when I let off the gas it immediately pulls back and slows down, instead of coasting.

Do either of those two things have anything to do with it? Am I imagining things? I don't think it felt like this before.

[malave7567]

Neither of those should affect that. The clutch adjustment.. if adjusted too far down just means you can't enough travel to completely separate the clutch from the flywheel, resulting in grinding when trying to switch gears quickly. Where you set it at is a good spot though, I haven't heard anyone having issues with that placement.

The fuel chirp is annoying, but only a result of using gas with ethanol in it. No performance or reliability issues here.

This car is geared such that if you release the gas while in gear still, you will decelerate fairly quickly. 5th gear is the 1:1 gear, so 1-4 will still slow you down well while "coasting".

As for why the car is feeling slow today... idk

[SloS14]

Try setting your FM2 selections to mostly talk radio, should improve your 0-60.

[brianhj]

May be my imagination then!

Originally Posted by SloS14

Try setting your FM2 selections to mostly talk radio, should improve your 0-60.

Hahahaha

[mad_sb]

make sure you adjusted the clutch switch when you did the pedal adjustment. There is a clutch down timing retard table in the ecu (but it only applies as you let the clutch out on a shift, not all the time the pedal is down), if you are no longer closing the switch when the pedal is at the top of travel (foot off the pedal position) the ecu thinks you have the pedal depressed all the time. There may be other compensations active when the ecu thinks the clutch pedal is depressed.

An easy test is to see if you cruise control works, if not, you need to adjust the switch position.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by SloS14

Try setting your FM2 selections to mostly talk radio, should improve your 0-60.

SCIENCE!!

[brianhj]

Originally Posted by mad_sb

make sure you adjusted the clutch switch when you did the pedal adjustment. There is a clutch down timing retard table in the ecu (but it only applies as you let the clutch out on a shift, not all the time the pedal is down), if you are no longer closing the switch when the pedal is at the top of travel (foot off the pedal position) the ecu thinks you have the pedal depressed all the time. There may be other compensations active when the ecu thinks the clutch pedal is depressed.

An easy test is to see if you cruise control works, if not, you need to adjust the switch position.

Yeah cruise control works.

That's the part I didn't get about the clutch pedal adjustment walkthrough. When I adjust the two nuts the little switch moves with the whole assembly. And when the pedal is released, there's no way for it to not fully depress that switch. So I didn't see how to even adjust the switch.