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Guys,
I want to get your opionion on a symptom of a fault on my car..
For a few months now I have had what I can only describe as a slight slip of the clutch when the car initially comes onto boost at about 3000rpms. It was a split second slip of maybe 200rpms and then it was gone. At first I put it down the Apexi ATS Silencer I have in the tailpipe, as i thought perhaps it was opening quickly under back pressure and releasing the restrictions as i planted my foot?
Well, in the past couple of weeks the split second slip has turned into about a 2 second slip, as boost comes on around the same point. I guess it probably slips 500-750rpms and then goes back to normal and holds all the way through the rev range even on max boost of 1.1bar?? (NB: as far as I am aware the car has a standard clutch?)
This is the bit I cant get my head round, if the clutch was going to slip surely it would slip continuously all the way to the red line (or until I lifted off) and not just a ~500rpm slip and then hold for the rest of the power curve?
Am I missing something? Has anyone experienced this before, could it be the Apexi ATS doing something strange? Is it the clutch? Or should i be checking something else?
What do people think?
Thanks
Als
I want to get your opionion on a symptom of a fault on my car..
For a few months now I have had what I can only describe as a slight slip of the clutch when the car initially comes onto boost at about 3000rpms. It was a split second slip of maybe 200rpms and then it was gone. At first I put it down the Apexi ATS Silencer I have in the tailpipe, as i thought perhaps it was opening quickly under back pressure and releasing the restrictions as i planted my foot?
Well, in the past couple of weeks the split second slip has turned into about a 2 second slip, as boost comes on around the same point. I guess it probably slips 500-750rpms and then goes back to normal and holds all the way through the rev range even on max boost of 1.1bar?? (NB: as far as I am aware the car has a standard clutch?)
This is the bit I cant get my head round, if the clutch was going to slip surely it would slip continuously all the way to the red line (or until I lifted off) and not just a ~500rpm slip and then hold for the rest of the power curve?
Am I missing something? Has anyone experienced this before, could it be the Apexi ATS doing something strange? Is it the clutch? Or should i be checking something else?
What do people think?
Thanks
Als