I havent posted much here except a rant about waiting for some friends to have the time to get me a deal on the install price of my clutch. Well that was a very long time and i'm still waiting. BUT.>........ TODAY IS THE DAY!

Its 4:09pm EST and i left work early because of the excitement of finally getting my clutch installed and feeling the power my car once had, about 6 months ago. Ever since wasterfest last summer and the 13.5 runs i was doin, this was expected. haha 6th gear started slipping then and 2nd gear slips with any amount of boost. The car is an 02 s4 and has 107,000 and the stock clutch with a 93 APR tune. I have two mechanics and they are cool guys and fast workers. Installing the new RS4 clutch and new stock flywheel. They are telling me 4 hours tonight. I show up at 5 and 9:00 i pick it up. They talk about getting the uper bolts off the turbos on the left side with out pulling the engin.


What's your bet. HOW LONG DO YOU THINK I WILL TAKE.
Thats fast. I'm might need to bring an 18 pack of BL and not a 6.

Also, my mechanic said a light weight flywheel migh destroy the Transmission. He claims its because of my agressive driving style. I might agree The damn car is such a beast, its the cars fault i drive it like that. Do you think thats the case?

I'll be back later. Wish me luck.

 

4 hours? That might be a record man. I don't think that tranny is coming out and going back in in less than 6-8 hrs.

 

i have the same problem..clutch started slipping at low rpm/high boost situations in third gear, now itll do it anytime i hit 17psi..lol.. i already have my southbend kevlar disc, im just waiting for my rs4 pressure plate from 034 motorsports... then ill install mine and see how long it takes me... im going solo.. but i have a rack and every tool in the world... so well see...

 

No it won't. The tranny doesn't care how quick the rpm's come up.

 

That would be impressive if they did it in 4 hours. At the same time a fast pace increases their chance for error. I hope they do a good job. Every shop I've talked told me 8-10 hours. There is a lot of stuff that needs to be removed before you can get to the clutch.

I do wish you the best of luck...

 

The job was officaly started at 6:30. My day tomorrow involves driving it to Mount Snow, west dover Vt. riding the entire day. and then 2 hours home to hartford ct. Nice and slow and a great chance to drive it alot and work it in. And then tear *** in a couple of days I leave at 6:30am. COffe Coffe COffe

 

He Just called. its 11 pm est and the tranny is back in. Suspension stuff and exhaust needs to go back in . They said stop over in 30 min. This is still not the offical finish time.

 

So when did they finish?
Looks like the polls were spot-on

 

5 hours and 45 min. I got a check engin light today. It was very cold this morning and i didemt give it time to warm up. The code is P0421 - Warm up Catalyst efficiency below threshold bank1. Cleared for now. We will see. By the way, Mount snow was amazing. the parks are vast and take up a whole mountian peak and two lifts. Great times..

 

Followup . Clutch is working great. about 650 miles later. Still not launching.