AirtoMud

I am experiencing a slipping transmission in almost every gear and can smell my clutch burning. I also notice it is a little difficult to shift up but the pedal feels fine. I do have a AWE stage 2 tune and AWE intake which has put more strain on the stock clutch.


Is the clutch adjustable, am I experiencing a failed clutch, both, or something else? I have about 25K miles on the car.

SloopJohnB@mac.com

Chances are the clutch has failed, either worn or pressure plate spring or something else.
Sounds like you need to drop the trans and replace the clutch and press plate. Once they're burnt they're toast (pun intended).

J. Patterson

Sorry but yes your clutch is failing. Your tuned engine has more torque than it can deliver.
When you replace it you might consider an upgrade.

AirtoMud

Any suggestions on an upgrade? I'm looking at the JHS and ECS Flywheel kits.

SloopJohnB@mac.com

They jacked up the engine....they should have a clutch/flywheel/pressure plate that can take it.

AirtoMud

Yeah you would think but I haven't seen anything on their site. I just now threw down some change, $4464.00 to be exact... I went with the ECS Tuning flywheel kit and decided to go ahead and get the Milltek resonated exhaust with cerecote tips since I have to remove the old one anyway to replace the clutch/flywheel.


I really wanted to stick with AWE and get the resonated touring exhaust but I couldn't pass up the deal on the Milltek; ECS is shipping for free to my APO here in Germany. I'll let you guys know how it all turns out when I'm done.