1994 GSR, 100,300 miles. Just wondering about how soon I'm going to have to put a clutch in...

 

Depends on how it is driven. I think an average life span would be about a 100K but I have heard of them lasting 120-150K.

You will know when it starts to go...

 

mine made it to 187,000 then went all to hell.

 

what are the signs of a clutch going on its last leg?

 

If you give it a lot of gas, and you see the revs climb but you dont go anywhere...its pretty much toast.

 

oh you could just be driving like me and your clutch dies when the pressure plate springs take a fall.....it could happen at any time. You should always have some money around for your car though for those just in case times.

 

I'm at 82K.
I'm starting to get a LITTLE bit of slipping / chattering but nothing horrible.

I assume when I put the nitrous on (around 84k miles), the clutch will be gone by 90K.

But without the nitrous, I bet I could get... 110-120k out of it.

 

Clutch life is very driver dependant. If you don't slip it all the time, drive in stop and go traffic, or other high clutch wear scenarios it can last 150k miles+, OTOH, if you sit at traffic lights and hold your car against the hill, and abuse it you can fry one quite easily.

My GF sold her '89 Accord @ 184k miles, original clutch, and still holding well.

/bill

 

Yeah, what bradley said.
His GF went 184K miles.

In mY Z28, because of donuts and burnouts and track time -- I got 52k miles.

 

I'd think you got at least 180k miles worth of fun out of that clutch though. :rofl:

/bill