bought 03 S today

[Perfectlap]

bump,
LN IMS is going in today...with a new clutch and flywheel. i wasn't counting on that last part. But apparently I waited too long too for the clutch change. The flywheel had dark purplish scoring all over. My indy said it was a 50/50 on getting chatter if I kept it in. After this much work I decided to just to spend the extra $600. Talk about a repair job: six different parts in one shot.

The more I think about it the more I think it makes sense to do this job sooner than later if you're car is over the 50K mile mark. If you lose out on the last couple of years of clutch life, its not really that big a deal. Say a new clutch runs $1200 and lasts you 6 years or 60K miles, that works out being $200 a year. So you pass up $400 but you still have a new clutch at the end of the day and the probably less than 1% chance of your engine grenading comes down to a fraction of 1%. I think that's worth $400.