Whats up all. Just bought a stage 3 clutch, 8lb flywheel which should be here tomorrow or Friday. Anyway, I'm planning on driving this car from San Diego to Reno next week (pretty much right after I road test the clutch if I do install it) which is 637 miles roughly.

My thought is this drive would be fine and might even be better for breaking in the new clutch as opposed to city driving around San Diego.

Mostly I'm bored and I wanted to open up to an INTELLIGENT conversation about your thoughts on this. i.e. in your opinion would a long road trip in a single day be better to "ease" the clutch & flywheel in to its break in period, or do you think city driving with more engagement/disengagement would be better overall.

 

itll be fine, actually good for it. I cant remember how long they suggest a break-in. I think act suggest 800miles? but not sure. Just driving it will be good, starting and stopping will break it in nice. They just dont want you to go grabbing gears at 7k or well grabbing gear period. just drive it normal, itll be good for and break it in quick

 

Clutches need to be broke in in stop and go traffic. Other wise you will "glaze" the clutch. I dont get on the highway with a new clutch for atleast 200 miles. I would drive it around town for a while the day be for you leave

 

You can drive it on the freeway no problem. just be easy with it and kinda ride the clutch out from light to light just a little bit. this is what i do and it breaks it in nice and soft. no power shifting or popping the clutch though.

On the highway the clutch wont even be used. its only used when city driving. unless your down shifting to 4th and back to 5th for fun lol.

I drove mine on the highway after 5 miles on new clutch. and the clutch break in period is 500 miles.

 

from what ive heard its better to do city driving. shifting gears going easy on it though. going hard can cause it to glaze

 

See this was my thought as well. Mostly because driving on the highway wouldn't be engaging/disengaging the clutch, so though 500 miles (the standard break in period as Travis mentioned) may elapse on the odometer, however in my eyes, these driving conditions would actually extend the initial break in period. Since the clutch is rarely engaged/disengaged on a road trip such as this, putting 500 miles on the clutch in these conditions would have the same residual effect as driving a few stop lights away; the new clutch would not be getting used to biting on the flywheel.

More or less I'd be looking at putting 100-200 miles city driving on the new clutch before departing, just to get past the initial stages of the break in. Plus taking the I-5 through LA, then Sac Town will most likely cause me to hit a little traffic at the very least. And since Cali drivers don't drive like the Chi-Town boys I'm sure I will be doing plenty of shifting to get around dumb *** soccer moms doing the speed limit in the fast lane.

 

stage 3 clutch sucks in traffic, but it must be done

 

True that!! Especially LA traffic.

 

[QUOTE=Jackal6042;38442476] (the standard break in period as Travis mentioned) /QUOTE]

I have to bite my tongue be for I get another infraction

 

^Yep^

 

Highway miles don't count as break-in miles - period.

The break-in mileage needs to be city type driving, as in stop and go action where you're actually USING the clutch.