[Socal_Camaro]

There's a long strip of road nearby that's great for safely checking out 0-60 times. Today, I was pushing to see if I could improve on my 5.8 record time. Headed down the road accelerating from probably 45-60 and riding the clutch in 3rd (or maybe 4th?) the engine revs more than expected for a moment, the car lurches, the engine whines due to the revving, and a loss of power is felt.

No dash lights come on. The car still drives when this happens. I can still shift to the next gear and get back in my power band.

Other times this has happened I have let it stay in gear and let the engine rev down - and then continued to accelerate/drive as expected.

This only happens when I'm trying to haul ass as fast as I can in a straight line while riding the clutch to get some extra acceleration.

Is there something wrong?? Or should I just not be riding the clutch in a car like this? I used to do this all time without any trouble in my 2011 Jetta...

What do you guys think?

[Cechk01]

Originally Posted by Socal_Camaro

There's a long strip of road nearby that's great for safely checking out 0-60 times. Today, I was pushing to see if I could improve on my 5.8 record time. Headed down the road accelerating from probably 45-60 and riding the clutch in 3rd (or maybe 4th?) the engine revs more than expected for a moment, the car lurches, the engine whines due to the revving, and a loss of power is felt.

No dash lights come on. The car still drives when this happens. I can still shift to the next gear and get back in my power band.

Other times this has happened I have let it stay in gear and let the engine rev down - and then continued to accelerate/drive as expected.

This only happens when I'm trying to haul ass as fast as I can in a straight line while riding the clutch to get some extra acceleration.

Is there something wrong?? Or should I just not be riding the clutch in a car like this? I used to do this all time without any trouble in my 2011 Jetta...

What do you guys think?

yea, you shouldn't be riding the clutch. The SS has some form of torque management that will kick in if it thinks the clutch is slipping too much. not sure if this is a "feature" on the 2.0L cars too.

[Socal_Camaro]

Thanks, I'm hoping it's just a matter of riding the clutch causing too much slip. I'll try to ease off a bit on the next go

[protovack]

this is a built in safety, it sounds like normal operation.