Just bought a 2003 wrx ppp and is perfect apart from one thing .......

When i change gear usually 2nd to 3rd the revs go up a little (when i engage the clutch). Kind of difficult to explain exactly whats happenin. eg if the revs are at 3000rpm and i press the clutch instead of the revs dropping straight off it will leap up to around 3200rpm for a second then drop.

When you drive hard it doesnt seem to happen??

Could it be a sticky throttle cable or something else?

The clutch was replaced 2k miles ago with an uprated Exedy clutch

Anyone got any ideas what it could be??

Cheers

Danny

 

i know exactly what you mean, mine does that some times.

 

Thats good im not the only one mate lol.

I briefly spoke to my mechanic about it and he reckoned it would be the throttle cable sticking rather than something serious, just thought id ask on here as most subaru problems seem to be common.

Hopefully someone will have an idea and we can get rid of our annoying problem

 

Happens to me if I change gear slowly.

 

same here 53wrx been asking this question for a while now and never got a definate answer.
a lot af people have same problem.

 

My answer was always to lift off before before pressing the clutch.

 

Yeah, same problem, when i change slowly i notice it, not fast...never really questioned it, just thought it was another quirk of owning an impreza..

 

yeah ive put it down to been an impreza thing, its never worried me as my car runs a1. Well for now anyway lol

 

nah its not an impreza thing my beast of a xsara does it, i did know waht it was ,had the prob b4 on a car but ive forgot - sorry
oh and its not the cable sticking its something electronic compensating might be a vacuum or dv leak something like that

 

Probably an anti emissions thing I reckon.

 

Yup, i've experienced it as well on my bugeye wrx, in fact quite a few Imprezas i've driven.

 

It certainly depends how your driving to wether it does it, i find if im driving steady it does it, if im having a mad half hour it doesnt. SO MY CONCLUSION IS MY IMPREZA DOESNT LIKE GOING SLOW AND IT SHOWS IT BY BEEN ****TY WHEN IM DRIVING SLOW LOL.