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Originally Posted by Mabueno2
Hello everyone,
I recently purchased a 2014 Camaro 1SS and I love the car so far it is amazing. I have always wanted a 5th Gen since the concept was released.
Now there are a couple of things though that I have been reading that are pretty normal with the car from what I have been reading but just wanted to make sure...
1) The transmission makes a clunk and rattle sound whenever I depress the clutch pedal quickly... Is that the normal thing it does?
2) When I am going about 10-15MPH and put the car in 2nd gear and let it coast without any gas, the car starts to surge forward and it feels as if the clutch is bouncing off the flywheel until I take it out of gear. Now I understand it could be that it is too low of MPH for 2nd gear but I have had previous LS cars that were manual and didn't surge like this when put into 2nd gear at low speeds.
Car is bonestock and looking to make it have a Z28 look to it for the initial mods.  |
Welcome! I have the same car so hopefully I've answered your questions here.
1. The sound you hear is the clutch fork rattling because you let it out too fast. It's a heavy V-8 clutch so you hear it rattle when you let it jump out too fast since it weighs quite a bit. If you hear a heavy clunk that's the sound of the driveshaft taking up slack when engaged, it requires a bit of finesse to engage the clutch without clunking in this car. You'll learn this over time, it's not hurting anything. The driveshaft also sits up high in the car so it can be heard more easily.
2. You should not be allowing the car to coast at slow speed in second gear like that. It's called lugging and it's bad for the drive train and clutch. Your'e going too slow and in too low of a gear for it to be coasting. The clutch is dragging off the flywheel when you do this. Your'e also abusing the u-joints on the drive shaft by doing this. Heck, my DD Chevy Cobalt 4 banger will do that if I allow it too. Compression from the engine is going to try and push that slow gear anyway which is probably what it sounds like when you say it's surging. I wouldn't let it do that, I've been driving manuals for years and I can tell that this is a bad practice.