breaking in 2100 on highway?

[yup talon]

I installing my fresh act 2100 this week and should have it done thursday night/friday morning sometime. I was planning to head down to detroit on friday evening (120 miles give or take) , and was wondering if it would be a bad idea to "break in" my clutch on the highway (granted i dont boost).

or should i just drive around town all day/night and leave on saturday morning/afternoon?

 

[Black20FWD]

I just did the install myself and how about that pedal pressure you will soon begin to feel. Anyway to properly break in the clutch it needs to be like city driving more or less. If you drive around the Detroit area for a while stopping at some stop lights and signs every few hundred to thousand feet or so you should be doing alright. In general I would break in a clutch over a few weeks and not all in one night. Driving on the highway is not going to do much for breaking in as the clutch will be pressurized the whole time not giving any release pressure on the plate and TOB. This is all stated on the directions at the bottom labeled clutch break in directions. Good luck with the clutch.

 

[yup talon]

so should i re-schedule my trip and break it in first? or would it be ok to drive it locally 100 miles or so, then head out to d-town?


i kinda need go there as soon as possible, what would you do? (driving there before the clutch swap not being an option)

 

[xcelr8n]

i dont think its necessairly bad, dont boost on it, but you shoudnt count those 120 miles towards the 500 mile break in, cause youre not breakign anything in.

 

[yup talon]

right thats what i meant, thanks!

 

[Mirage2LTurbo]

With 300 miles on my 6 puck, it still wasn't completly broken in. I pulled the tranny off, and it was still wearing on the edges of the pads only. It wasn't until right at 500 miles when I pulled the tranny again that it showed completly worn on the pads. That was all city driving, just locally to the shop and back and around town to break in the motor.