300zx Drifting Lesson gone wrong!!!! IDK WHAT THOUGH??!!

[lil_bro]

So today i was driving my recently purchased 300zx n/a and my friends wanted to see how well it drifts. I personally have never drifted on clutch before but i figured i'd attempt. When i was trying to drift i put it in second gear and hit the gas to raise the rpm's. The problem is, i was so focused on the rpms that i forgot to let go of the clutch!!!!! I rev'd it at 7k rpms for about 5 sec. or so and when i parked it back up there was a burnt smell outside the car. And it also has a little tapping noise as well.... At one point during the 7k rpm torture i tried to switch it to third gear and now my 3rd gear grinds as well.

What could the smell and the quiet tapping noise be?? Could the 3rd gear grinding be replaced with a new clutch kit??? Please help.

[Bawked]

haha ur friends are fnf watching noobs. treat ur car wiv respect nig.

[mtheis]

Division by zero.

You probably floated the valves. If this 7k torture happened with the clutch disengaged, I doubt there was any damage to the gears.

[theholycow]

I can imagine the panic suddenly causing the driver to shove it hard into 3rd while at 7000rpm. If the synchro was marginal before, I guess it could have gotten chewed up.

It certainly sounds like the engine is the more worrying problem of the two. What's redline for that engine?

[kwak88]

if its a z31, the redline starts at 5500

[lil_bro]

It's a 1991 300zx VG30DE. (Z32). Redline 7k. And thats where it was getting tortured. So how would i fix something like that? Sync the gears?

[Rope-Pusher]

Hard to believe this would have anything to do with 3rd gear synchro function. If it did, it was already worn within 1 shift of starting to clash.

Can you still shift it slowly into 3rd without clash? (pushing softly on the shift knob)

Can you still shift into 3rd gear at low speeds without clash? (20 mph?)

Does the clutch friction point feel the same as before? Does it fully disengage the clutch when you foot is still 25mm off the floor? If the clutch isn't fully disengaging, that can provoke worn synchronizers to clash.

As for the engine, is there any chance that oil level was low or g-loading sloshed oil away from oil pick-up? Lifter with some air in it would explain ticking noise.

[lil_bro]

If i push it in slowly in it will still clash a lil bit (only at low speeds). At about 20 it will clash a little more. When going about 30-35 it clashes pretty hard. Overall, what I've noticed is that the 3rd gear is very lose now. When its in gear i can move it back 'n forth pretty far. As for the clutch, i always disengage it fully and it works fine with all of the other gears. Just #3 got very hard clashing/grinding going on. And as for the engine, the noise and the smell went away. Well maybe a little smell was there, i think my brain is just playing tricks on me lol.. But in any case I drove it around today and it was just fine concerning the smell and the tapping (there was none).

[LHOswald]

worst case is you tore the shit out of your synchro and you'll probably need to get it replaced eventually. for now just take it easy, maybe you just tore it unevenly so thats why its acting weird. if you know how to double clutch you might want to double clutch into that gear for awhile just to make sure you don't completely destroy it. having to rebuild your entire tranny would be a bitch if you had to do it for 1 synchro that you thrashed with 1 mistake on 1 poorly decided drift

[lil_bro]

Hey, well if i buy and install a new clutch kit, will that solve the problem??

[Caramel]

it could work... if the clicking is from the clutch.
but it won't help any grinding because the synchros are in the transmission...

[vedran]

Hey, well if i buy and install a new clutch kit, will that solve the problem??

doesn't sound like it. sounds like your synchro(s) is/are blown and you'll need to take your transmission apart in order to get it fixed. hopefully that's the only thing that's broken

have you tried double clutching into third? it may make things a little easier on you

[theholycow]

Depending on your engine and gears, it may be easy enough to just skip 3rd entirely. In my car it wouldn't even be annoying...I'd have to skip two gears before it gets a little annoying.

[Rope-Pusher]

I'm not sure if your trans has plastic pads on the tips of the shifting forks, but if it did and they cracked, the fork would be loose to the synchro sleeve and not push the sleeve far enough for the synchronizer to work properly. Might also get jump-out if that was the case.
How does 4th gear feel? Loose also? Any clash?

[lil_bro]

The fourth gear used to clash, but since the drifting "accident" its transferred over into 3rd gear.... The fourth usually clashes sometimes if i downshift from 5th... Lol i know, its a little confusing... Well in any case guess i better start saving up for a mechanic