All Things Mk5 > Performance Modifications
Slipping Clutch
MC71:
--- Quote from: gigolo456 on January 14, 2013, 08:22:24 pm ---This is so confusing! On the one hand you r saying there will be vibration, yet ive been advised by a reputable Independent on here that no extra vibration would occur!
Then there's the issue of SMF or DMF, and on the premise that my current DMF is ok, cant I just stick with that?
Part of me thinks that I should perhaps just get a new stock clutch, but can that handle 275 bhp and 330 lbs of torque?? Id say 80% of my driving is to and from work, 2 miles each way, and then bout hundred miles on motorway each wk, so I want a clutch that does not require me to have Herculean strength in my right leg, lol!?
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With those figures I'd recommend an updated clutch as usually with anything Stage 1 and above the OEM clutch will be struggling. Some peeps manage on a standard for years while running stage 1 but for others it cam be months.
IMHO, Yes you'll get some extra noise from an updated clutch with a different (harder than OEM) pedal feel but its not a biggy. It doesn't bother me but you won't know until you experience it. You need to get yourself in a Mk5 with an unrated clutch so get yourself to a meet or to a Dyno Day or even post a thread asking if anyone near you can take you out in their car.
gigolo456:
Very wise words, thank you! Watever clutch get, i'll b shopping around, but as I live in Doncaster, Statlers in Sheffield is usually my port of call these days!! Maybe he'll have 1 with an updated clutch, only way of telling if I would be happy with it I guess!?
Cheers!
Andrew
scopes:
How should a clutch feel from new, should you get extra vibration, should the car feel a bit strange to drive for the 1st few hundred miles?????
zerolag:
Judder is probably the orrible dual mass flywheel.
Set your handbrake, place in third gear allow the clutch out slowly, do the revs rise or does the car pull against the brake... If the latter clutch should be ok.
gigolo456:
Reference this thread specifically, I tried the old get up to 6th gear, 2k revs, floor the right foot, and sure enough, clutch slipped!
Also tried the setting off in 3rd gear and it managed it, albeit juddery!! :'(
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