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Tastycakes · 07-16-2009, 09:19 PM

I still got the stock intake, took a couple of minutes but got it through. The tube worked great filling up from the engine bay. The gears feel smoother but it still grinds ~33% of the time on the 1-2 shift above 7,000 RPM. No 3rd grind yet (only drove it a mile so far) but I could really care less about 3rd. When it doesn't grind at high RPM on 2nd it still feels very, I dunno sketchy, like it's on the verge of grinding. I haven't felt a smooth high RPM 1-2 shift in like 10k miles, it sucks.

This 2nd gear **** is really getting old. It's def not abuse, I'm at 50k miles and the original clutch still hooks up tight. When I get a clean 1-2 shift it chirps the **** out of it. I'd assume the clutch would wear out before a synchro would :/

Any way, at 50k miles and got a full warranty til 60k, gonna take it in one of these days.

07-16-2009, 09:19 PM	#529 (permalink)
Tastycakes Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NW Suburbs of Chicago Age: 28 Posts: 2,998 Mike	I still got the stock intake, took a couple of minutes but got it through. The tube worked great filling up from the engine bay. The gears feel smoother but it still grinds ~33% of the time on the 1-2 shift above 7,000 RPM. No 3rd grind yet (only drove it a mile so far) but I could really care less about 3rd. When it doesn't grind at high RPM on 2nd it still feels very, I dunno sketchy, like it's on the verge of grinding. I haven't felt a smooth high RPM 1-2 shift in like 10k miles, it sucks. This 2nd gear ** is really getting old. It's def not abuse, I'm at 50k miles and the original clutch still hooks up tight. When I get a clean 1-2 shift it chirps the ** out of it. I'd assume the clutch would wear out before a synchro would :/ Any way, at 50k miles and got a full warranty til 60k, gonna take it in one of these days.