Neighborhood Yard Find for me!

[Andy]

Originally Posted by njsteve

I did notice a "weirdness" to the shifting/clutch engagement at higher RPMs. It is like the throttle sticks for a millisecond and the revs go up ever so slightly like you were slipping the clutch. I believe that is the exact symptom that the stupid valve causes, right?

My throttle seemed like it had a slight delay in response from when I matted it to when it started picking up RPM. I think it is inherent with the logic of the electrical components of the pedal/pcm/throttle body. With mine, I could tap the traction control button quickly and it would reduce the amount the PCM held back on the throttle but if I press and held it for 5 or 10 seconds, it would completely disable it and man o man, that increased the fun factor a bunch and got rid of that lag!

My issue with the valve was at shifts over 5,000 rpm, I couldn't shift fast. If I tried, I was greeted with a grind. The valve restricted the flow of fluid to the slave and I guess enough fluid couldn't be displaced in that fast shift, thus causing the clutch to not fully disengage. Before I sold the car, I put the stock shifter in it and I could easily see how someone could miss shifts with it. It was super mushy compared to my Hurst.

My car also had a feature that was hill start assist. I don't see where that would come into play with what you are describing, but I would recommend turning that off. I disabled it on day 1 of ownership. It would hold the brakes on a hill until the clutch was fully engaged and the car started moving forward.

I didn't have any issues with lighting in my cluster.

What's odd is, I was driving through town last night and saw a Challenger R/T the same color as the one you just bought at a used car dealership and it had the 71 style R/T stripe on it with with the classic wheels. Car looked great.

I later added the classic Challenger and R/T emblems to my fenders and put the pentastar on the right one. Also put the red eye spoiler on it, I didn't put stripes on it and thought it was a way to break up all the orange on the side of the car. I also liked the SRT8 front spoiler better than the smaller stock one so I added it too.