If you feel you still want a good S2000 mechanic to look it over or even put the clutch in, take it to Concord - Streamline Performance. Jacob is amazing and in my opinion he is LHT Performance North division or Billman satellite office. He is knows these cars. Many in the area take theirs to him and he's great.
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I just saw this, thank you for the part numbers. So I was going to see if I could have my clutch warrantied by the company I bought it from and they said to bleed to the system to see if there are any air bubbles in it. Could air in the system cause the clutch to slip also? It makes me wonder if this could also be a potential issue because the clutch is fairly new. I bought it a year ago and had it installed around then, too, and it had been working fine till now. Should I spend the time to bleed it first and see if it resolves the issue before I go about buying $1600+ worth of parts?

 

Air in the system will not make the clutch slip. The clutch pressure on the disc is from spring pressure from the fingers in the clutch itself. The hydraulics in the system are to disengage the clutch when you depress the pedal, not to provide clamping pressure

 

Okie dokies. Thank you I appreciate the info!

 

To add, air would imoede fully disengaging clutch. Symptoms would be crunchy shifts, as syncros try and match speeds and mesh, while engine side is still being partially powered.

You also might experience effect were car creeps a little bit when you first put into first or reverse while still sitting. Clutch not fully released, so power can actually make it to wheels.

On the other hand, and overly adjusted clutch could cause slipping. If there is kess than 0 play, negative play, in clutch adjustment. Basically, its like pedal was never fully released. There is always hydraulic tension on pp springs. So full pp pressure, full clamping force, is never applied to disk.

This sho be easy to feel in pedal. There is supposed to be 6mm, .25", of play at pedal. Free travel before you feel a sudden build.up of pressure. This is pedal first starting to move pp springs. You can feel as hydraulic pressure first starts to move them.

Not feeling that play is a red flag.

 

Nope, its not air bubbles. A shop that suggests that may not know what they're doing, or they're just kicking the can down the road.

It may also not have anything to do with the install. Aftermarket clutches don't last on this car. Someone says "Stage 2" and it translates into "clutch failure in 0-20K miles" to me.

The factory clutch is best.

If you ever do go supercharged, you'll want to deal with the many headaches of that endeavor at the time. Swapping to a heavier duty pressure plate is just the tip of your problem-berg when/if you decide to supercharge the car. So no use in solving that problem right now.