clutch has about 15k miles on it
ok, so my brother is nagging me to let him drive my car, he doesn't drive stick but said that he knows how.. anyways making a long story short.. we come to a hill...he seemed really intimidated by it... he tried once or twice to get up and stalled out. Then I told him to give it more gas. well the car starts rolling back and he starts giving it gas... I saw and clutch smoke coming from under the hood, and we could smell it... we let the car sit for about 5 min and I took over and drove away.

-the clutch seemed a lot less grippy. (?in my mind?)
-do you think heavy damage was done? I have never seen clutch smoke like that....
-should I think about buying a new clutch soon?

 

Woa!! He must have really done a number on it. It is quite possible he fried your clutch. Then again, he might have just glazed it or left a burn on it. How bad is it? Can you feel/hear it slipping?

 

do you have an aluminum flywheel and what kind of clutch do you have

id give it a few weeks and see if it gets better i doubt it will take a crap on you that soon

 

Once upon a time there was a crash: the car was sitting against a light pole. Took my stanza to tow it away. For unknown reason, that mazda was stuck, sitting on the lawn, against the pole. Just stuck, could not understand why. 100hp was not enough, clutch started smoking... slippin. Oh boy. Drove slipping Stanza home, got my truck and installed half inch steel wire, ripped tha car off: there was a 6feet signpost sitting halfway inside the engine bay, now there was a three feet hole in the ground...

And then the Stanza clutch: it was changed five yrs 60k later, no problem. Well, slipped at first, but then really ok, like maxitech says:
-the clutch seemed a lot less grippy. (?in my mind?)
- no heavy damage was done? I have never seen clutch smoke like that....
- I surely was thinking about buying a new clutch soon...

 

the clutch was probably just overheated and glazed the surface.

drive on it for a while and it should be fine once it cools down and gets the surface cleaned back up. I see the same thing when people try to slip their clutch at the dragstrip.

 

ok, well im going to baby it for the next few days... thanx guys

- I hafta get my hands on a good digital cam! no one has seen my VE5 yet.
... $hit is the bomb..... yo