What kind of burnout did you do? Did you just drop the clutch at high rpm, or did you play with the clutch to get the car moving a bit then drop it (this puts much less stress on the car and its parts)?
If you can accelerate at full throttle in all gears without any abnormal engine rev, your clutch is fine. When I first got my 06 LX sedan, I had the same problem with the clutch disengaging after barely depressing the clutch pedal, after driving it for a few thousand miles it "reset" itself and now requires me to fully depress the pedal, so you should be able to drive it out (if you drive it properly). If it continues to smell, think of it as your car punishing you for treating it like shit. Dropping the clutch causes so much stress within the engine, tranny, engine mounts, bearings, axles, unibody, tires, control arms, bushings, struts, alignment, shall I go on? Burnouts are nothing but a sign of weakness in your suspension, so it's not showing off. If you must do burnouts, please replace all the above with performance parts, otherwise you take a multi thousand dollar chance every time you drop the clutch.
These cars are designed to last as long as you treat them right, I've got 160,000 miles on mine and haven't replaced anything (shocks, and struts do need to be replaced tho), the clutch is still holding strong.
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03-01-2008, 05:41 PM
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