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To start, the car is a '90TT 5spd with 58k miles, only modification being a Stillen cat-back. So I went out to a friend's lake about an hour away to party out on his boat, thinking everybody was spending the night, and it turned out that we ended up having to head back that night. I had had too much to drink to drive, so I had to let a buddy drive my Z home; wasn't thrilled, but unfortunately I had no choice.
He seemed to drive fine as we left, just the normal getting used to the car and hadn't driven a stick in a while... once we got out onto the country roads I fell asleep. Woke up when we got home, car safe and unharmed... or so I thought. I jumped in to go the gym today, and immediately I notice the clutch has very little feel, and the engagement point seems extremely short and low to the floor. I go to put it in first, and it won't go; the car rocks forward when I try. Reverse is the same; won't go into gear, car rocks backwards, as if the clutch isn't engaging :/
I manage to get it into reverse and set off, and changing gears is extremely difficult, feels very wrong. Clutch still has very little feel, like it's "gone". I come to a stop and the car doesn't want to go into first again; not stuck like sometimes when the shifter sticks a little, but full out feels like there's not even a gear there stuck. At this point I'm thinking something is very wrong.
I decide to keep driving and see whether or not the clutch is slipping; as the car warms up, everything seems to improve. Once I got up to a suitable road, I ran it through 2nd and 3rd, and can't detect any slippage, car is boosting and running fine. After driving less than a mile at full operating temperature, everything is much improved; the clutch feels much more normal (more feel, more prominent engagement) and the shifting is much smoother; in fact everything feels nearly normal (perhaps completely, but in my worried head it still doesn't feel completely "right"). Ideas as to what's wrong? Perhaps the clutch and/or pressure plate... but would operating temps make such a dramatic difference in that case? Or perhaps the temps weren't the difference, and rather a mile or two of proper driving corrected some issue? Any input is appreciated,
Thanks.
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