when ever i am in 3rd, 4th or 5th gear and just cruising under 3k rpm, when ever i just slam my foot down on the gas pedal, my car slightly shakes and hesitates a little bit before actually accelerating. if i do this when above 3-3.5k RPM or in 1st or 2nd gear i dont experience it. is there a problem with my car or is it normal for this to happen because i am in a high gear at low RPM?

 

maybe the car is trying to catch up to speed, unless you have bad mounts thats why its shaking

 

that happened when my clutch was on its way out, im not sure if thats the case with you though.

 

I have the same problem, although under heavy acceleration I get a nice backfire from the intake. Check out this thread for my isuses...

It seems to hesitate more when the engine is warm (heatsoaked).

 

I have something similar going on. In 4th or 5th gear if I let off the gas and then accelerate hard the car shakes (sounds like from the drivetrain) and hesitates a bit. If I push the gas slowly it doesn't do it and it doesn't do it in 1st through 3rd gears either. I fear it is the clutch slipping. It has 85,xxx miles now.

 

That sounds more like drivetrain lash to me, or it could possibly be the clutch. Do you have a rough idle? Does it do it at high rpm's also?

 

I think its the clutch, I experience something like that, when I gun it say in 3rd and take it up to 5.5K I feel pulses of power, like its pulling then not as hard then pulling, I think its a small form of slipping.

 

No the idle is fine. Im not sure if it does it at high rpms or not because I would have to be going pretty fast in 5th gear to test it. I wonder how fast I would have to go to get 5k rpm in 5th gear...probably faster than I want to go on the stock suspension.

 

it use to happen on my old clutch which was crap and slipped sometimes, but i just got a new clutch put in and its still happening.