yea mr black ur correct u can downshift w/o it but it isnt good i just up shift w/o the clutch

 

mjmautohaus has what your looking for. Just get a steel fw 12-14lbs+ and you will be fine. At worst you will have to raise the idle a couple 100rpms

 

Oh yea, I can down and upshift while driving without pressing clutch on my spare car Mercury tracer. but the clutch was suppose to be changed 120K miles ago... So it probably means that your clutch remembers better time

 

while we're on clutches, what's the reasons for a clutch catastrophically failing? (basically replacing virtually the whole assembly)

I had to ride with someone for a bit so i left my car at work with a "friend" so he can get a bite to eat for lunch. I come back and the car's on the side of the road 2 miles from work. He said the car just started revving hing and finally it won't drive. He drives a ford ranger stick so I figured he knew his way around the clutch. I got it all fixed but never really know why my clutch would just crap out like that. The car's at ~61k miles when it happened. To this day, I don't know if I should kick his *** or the clutch just happen to go out on his shift. I drove to work fine that day, by the way.

 

they dont just crap out out of the blue. They wear down over time. He would have to dump the clutch at like 5-6k over and over again and with little time in between to kill it that fast.

 

how is it that Kiva is having this problem but didn't notice slipping beforehand.

If there is no slippage why is there no grinding in the tranny?

 

because there as been snow on the ground so i have been at real low rpms... the snow melted so i drive at a little bit higher rpms where it begins... idk, its weird, and i guess ive kinda seen it coming and something finally happened.

 

just went to mjm... they didnt have what i need though... i put in my whole audi...tt..180...quattro... and it came up with a 6sp? and just one clutch? and a 9lb FW?

yea kinda need a 5sp with that 14lb FW

 

The clutches for the quattros are the same. Both use the same 240mm o2m tranny.

 

so i can get a 6sp clutch?