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Originally Posted by ML Tampa
We had problems with the clutch in the beginning when we were popping the clutch in first gear at the start. The clutch stuck on us twice which returned us a 19sec and 34sec 1/4 mile, awesome! It made me sick. I thought I was going to have to replace the clutch after owning the car for only 3 months. We almost called it a day, but we let the clutch cool down and started running again without taching up at the tree.
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This is not clutch "sticking," it's "slipping". The pressure plate/clutch springs don't have enough clamping force to either bring the engine speed down to the transmission speed, or make the tires spin and bring the transmission speed up to the engine speed. It usually only happens when the clutch is hot and you impart a bunch more heat into the disk, overheating it. If you keep on the throttle and keep slipping it after this has happened, you can "glaze" the clutch, where it will keep slipping until the gaze has been burnt off.
I did this to my Corvette somewhere between 10 and 20 times over the course of it's life and the stock clutch survived to 54,000 miles when I sold it. It does decrease the lifespan of the clutch, but doesn't neccesarily kill it right then and there.