Are you supposed to hear a racing clutch? It whisltes when shifting but when I was parking I had it in neutral and it sounded like soft whining. Is that a sign of something or just noise?

 

What kind of clutch? I've never heard one whistle. Mabye its your intake?

I heard an old civic hatch with a bad throwout bearing, but it was more of a scratching sound than a whistle.

 

thats prolly ur intake i know on my car with my CAI at high RPMS u can hear it whistle ungodly loud. just pullin so much air in at once if it was he clutch its most likely the throw out bearing stick with OEM throwouts.

 

Thats what it sounds like, the intake. I never heard of a clutch whisling either. I'm not sure what kind of clutch it is. Is the clutch supposed to make any sound at all? It's not grinding and the people I let drive it says it's ok. I tend to worry about shit too much. I think(hope) that if there was a real problem I would be able to tell, no?

 

The clutch shouldn't make noise at all. I hear that certain intakes whistle on our cars.

To check for slippage:
Cruise in second gear until about 4500 rpms, then shift to fifth and floor it. If you're tach increases without effecting speed, your clutch is slipping.

 

I'll try that. I hope all is well.

 

I have the ACT HDSS clutch and I replaced my throwout bearing with the one provided...it now whines whenever the clutch is not engauged. go with OEM throw out bearing.

 

I agree. The one ACT provides is junk. Mine started squeeking a couple months after I installed it.

 

Aftermarket throwout bearings are junk?

I'm glad I ran across this, I bought the exedy kit. Have not mounted the tranny yet, do you guys recomend I get an OEM instead of the one supplied?

-Sorry to Jack your thread

 

Is that a pain in the ass to install(throwout bearing)?