How to treat a slightly burned clutch.
 

I was out practicing my launching again. DAM! They getting good. RPMS hardly drop. I studderbox at 5800 and slip/dump the clutch. On my last try tonight i stayed in the clutch a tiny bit too long and i could smell burned clutch.

Do you guys recommend doing anything after something like that? Does that usually 'glaze' it. Is there any way or need to condition it after something like that or just drive it normal? Now at least i know my limits on how much to slip it.

Thanks for any advice.

Re: How to treat a slightly burned clutch.
 

Just drive it, if it's gone then it's gone. How much cool down time did you give the clutch between launches?

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I only launched 3 times tonight. The first one over an hour till the 2nd, About 2 minutes between the last two. Definately not long enough. I hate that smell. Brand new clutch with only about 900miles on it so that's why i worried a bit. Time to quit dinking with it on the back roads and take it to the track and run some race gas through it. The sooner i get it to the track the less i'll play with it on the street once i know what it's capable of.

Shane- do you ever go to Rock on the $69 test and tune days? My first time out will definately be on one of those kind of days. I need a full day with the car.

Re: How to treat a slightly burned clutch.
 

If you glaze the clutch you can bring it back to life by driving normal for a while. Yours sounds fine though, I wouldn't worry about it.

Re: How to treat a slightly burned clutch.
 

Thanks Jet for the input. That's what i plan on do insteading of dinking around every other night with it. Jet- do you ever come out to test and tune days at the Rock? I'd like to get out there within the next 3 weeks. Would like to know if someone else would be there to help me tune the car some.

Re: How to treat a slightly burned clutch.
 

Me, Steve and Norm went to the first one of the year in 2000. We could get in as many runs as we wanted. Some of the trailered bracket racer Mustang guys were making fun of our cars, telling us to get real tires and laughing at our 16-valve factory stickers. This was before they had Import only days out there and there weren't many fast imports around at all. All three of us ran 12s that day, while some of the guys making fun of us with their trailered drag cars were running 14s. If I had a cage, I might goto one of those days, but it's too expensive to get kicked out of.

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I've been out a few times on the test and tune days and have never been bothered by anyone but of course that was recently over the past couple years. It's expensive but i need 1 or 2 of those days since i did so many things to my car. I'm wanting to get the alky injection pump of mine on this car. Didn't mess with it at all this weekend. Too Lazy i guess. What is NHRA rule. Anything sub 11.50, you need a cage? I'm sure i won't ever have to worry about that but since you made like 697whp, you could run that easily.

Re: How to treat a slightly burned clutch.
 

11.49 or faster you need a roll bar at Rockfalls.


This is taken straight from their site.

"A roll bar is mandatory in all cars (including T-Tops) running 11.00 to 11.49, in convertibles running 11.00 to 13.49, and in all dune buggy vehicles running 12.00 seconds and slower. The rollbar must conform to the diagrams referenced in the NHRA Rulebook."

Re: How to treat a slightly burned clutch.
 

Weird, that must be a Rock Falls rule of their own because they are NHRA ruled in general.

Re: How to treat a slightly burned clutch.
 

Sorry I ment 11.49 but I typed 11.99.

Re: How to treat a slightly burned clutch.
 

Yep, that makes sense now.

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A roll cage is mandatory in cars running 10.99 or faster.

Re: How to treat a slightly burned clutch.
 

It's 9.99 and faster for factory body/factory chassis cars like ours as long as you have the stock firewall and floor boards intact.

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so why don't you go to the track Shane? think you'll run under 10.0?

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Yeah Shane- Get to to the track :-) I tenatively plan on going July 9th, that's a week from this Sat. My brother will be racing too. Yesterday he won a 'Wally'. He won it all in the King of the Hill class.

See you there?

Re: How to treat a slightly burned clutch.
 

You need a roll bar for 11.49 and quicker. A full roll cage is different than the 5-6 point roll bars that most people have. I would be happy to get back into the mid 10s with all the problems I have had lately.

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That's right, you blew the motor if i remember correctly.

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and the IC has a slight crack in it, like 3" long...

Re: How to treat a slightly burned clutch.
 

How the hell did the IC get a crack in it? Cheezus! How much boost were you running dude?