Ouch 3.8L has no low end power...

[MustangEater8251]

me 2 girls in the car...

3500 clutch drop, stalls the car...

4500 clutch drop stalls the car....


I didn't have these problems with the 3.4L with lsd, and wider tires with mroe tread...


Either way I guess as long as I can spin them at the track to heat them up for a run it doesn't matter... :D


p.s. yeah I got laughed at [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Jack]

There may be other issues...at a 4500 dump you should fry the tires no matter how big the girls are.

[ka50]

lol... how big were those girls?

4500 dump I'll light up the tires.
3500 dump at least a long chirp.

[awesomeame]

d00d, those ""chicks"" must have been huge!! [img]graemlins/rofl.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/rofl.gif[/img] 4500 rpm w/3.23 & i spin a bit with 3 other big guys in the car!

--matt

[awesomeame]

do you have a cutout before the cat, crappy gears ie 2.73 that would compromise your bottom end?

i hear you have more slips than a victoria secret catalog & a mid 14 sec car...like that crappy a$$ bottom end just doesn't seem right....you must have a helluva top end on that thing.

--matt

[3.4 slow to go]

shouldn't this be in the kill section? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

What do you launch @ the track, w/o girls?

[navyblue2000]

hmm...what did you do, leave the parkingbrake on, stand on the brake instead of clutch, and forget to turn over the ignition? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

or were the tires rubbing the rear wheel well due to extra ballast? ;)

4500 drop for me usually gets me sideways on the road, whereas 3500 usually...well, same as 4500...haha

[tuffluk55]

Yeah man, dumping the clutch at 4500 should have easily gotten your tires lit up. Might wanna not let those girls in the car again, or maybe one at a time.

[MustangEater8251]

YEah I know its wierd they really aren't big...

and as for the top end it actually feels choked to hell my power is 3500ish-like 4800ish... seat of the pants feel and the lag on my tach.


At the track If I dump the clutch I usually run into the problem of lighting the tire up so bad I have to watch for the rev limiter..

but damn... never had this problem in the 3.4L...

And I woudl notice a lack in performance in daily driving non so far, I am pretty sensitive to my cars, and it feels like it did 2 weeks ago at the track(well slightly slower since I have it back to full stock now)

Rear tires are still pretty low and they were nice and heated up...

In fact to night, I got a little spin in the top end of first, and caught rubber slamming 2nd in a parking lot but it was cool out and the tires were dead cold.

[speedguy]

perhaps your clutch could be saying goodbye slowly. just a thought.

[speedguy]

try asking bob at granturismo.com, i'm sure he'll have the answer. he seems to know everything.

[MustangEater8251]

I hope not, car has 35k and its already on its second clutch I already trashed the first at 7k miles [img]smile.gif[/img]

wow you a granturismo.com member too? very few of those around on other boards I visit. well matt is one, and I ran into LT1 over at cz28.com [img]smile.gif[/img]

I jsut think the car doesn't have the power, it jerked me good and hard showing the clutch gripped, jsut the motor could not spin the wheels [img]smile.gif[/img]

[speedguy]

could be suspension or rear end. that doesn't explain the stalling though.

[Lord_Verminaard]

Someting's gotta be wrong there. I noticed that the 3.8 doesnt have the low-end punch that the 60* engines have, but even my car will burn both rear tires on a 2000 rpm drop, and that's with a torsen diff installed. (stock 3.23 gears) Although, I do have some crappy Goodyear Eagle G/A's on there, that might have something to do with it. I'd say your engine isnt running at top notch. How's fuel economy lately?

Brendan
2000 Camaro L36 M49
"mostly stock"...

[black98V6]

umm yeah something isn't right, I can spin one tire by stomping the gas at a 5-10 mph roll. Did it yesterday in fact. And my car is pretty close to stock, with 65k miles.