I hate my car!

[Deft]

Ok, so I have needed a new clutch for a while but ignored it kinda, a little while ago it started slipping like mad and now I think I will only be able to drive the car once or twice more before it goes completly and provids no holding power at all.

Good news is I got some money for a new one for xmass, bad news is the install takes NINE Hours and I've called a few places to verify this. They want more money than the clutch is to install it! God I wish it were summer I would do it myself but I dont have a heated spot and no one in my local car club wants to come out in the cold for 9 hours in their off work time to help install a clutch (if it were summer I could get someone).

So yea, this sucks its gonna end up costing me like 900-1000 for a new clutch that can tame the beast I have built up little by little.. I'll dyno the car too after the damn thing is installed since my shop now has a dyno that will work for my car as its got 4 wheels getting power not two.

 

[GOT_BUD?]

What is it?

(Boy am I glad my mechanic takes bud in payment)

 

[ChaoticEntity]

get a heated blanket, put a tarp over it and you'll be good to lay on the ground all day, I've done it before and it works quite well, now I just fold the blanket up on a creeper and wear decent clothes and mechanics gloves and I can work on a car all day winter or not.

DSM by chance?

 

[Deft]

Close but not quite, VR4. Thing is I dont know how to do it yet and would like to watch/help somone, I asked my club in the forums if anyone could help on short notice as they have helped me a lot of times and are all very nice. we'll see if somone can.

 

[sm0kateer4204]

good car. ive always wanted one of them

 

[Deft]

Theyre fun, but they break! Some of them are very old now, mines more than 10 years old but looks pretty good.

A guy who has helped me in the past might do the job for like half the money it would take a shop to do it and hes done a LOT of them it seems, he does 60k tuneups for 300.

 

[Yummybud]

yeah, that's not too expensive for a clutch job. Try 2000 bucks for my car, shop time is like 20 hours.

 

[ChrOniCHiGhz]

I own a 99 3000gt vr4, I've went through two clutches so far, so I feel your pain, 4wheel drive/steering is great though, the car hugs corner better then any other car I've ever owned. But 9 hours to change the clutch sounds very exaggerated to me, as I've had a buddy do mine, in my own garage change it in less then 5 hours (with my help, I knew very little about the car then though) -_-

 

[Deft]

First time I fealt the AWS was going on to an onramp, scared the shit out of me because it fealt like I lost traction in the rear lol.

 

[Ohh.Word]

get one of these:

 

[Deft]

Its a pain in the ass to ride a bike 10 miles to work in the snow and rian, I've done it to get to class just across campus and it was awful, of course that was upstate NY.

 

[fr33th3w33d]

be glad you have a car man. i had the pleasure of driving an fx35 for a few months, but its gone now. and not having anything sucks more than you can imagine.