What RPM are the best to engage your clutch?!?

Question

What RPM are the best to engage your clutch?!?

I need specific answers to this questions, how high do you guys/girls raise your RPM's when engaging the clutch from complete stop. The answers such as above idle won't work, cause I can figure out that myself. I need NUMBERS PEOPLE. LOL. I don't have a sports car, ( 139 horses) but it feels that I just can't release the clutch without raising RPM to about 1500-1800. Which seems like a bad thing for the clutch. But if I don't do that car jerks/stalls, and I look like I have no idea what I'm doing. Maybe I don't, so don't rub it in. HELP.

Answer 1

find out the "let go" point of the clutch aka the release point aka the point where if u let go any further it'll stall. once your comfortable on knowing where the release point is, at a complete stop release the clutch about an inch before where it is and put some gas (about 1200 rpm or so) and once ur engaged ur all set!

Answer 2

in my accord (150hp) I usually let the clutch out at 1500 rpms slooooowly otherwise you will stall the car but give it gas when your engaging it too. Its easier on the clutch when you do that compared to 3000-3500 rpm's. You always gotta give it some gas on any car. If you let it out at idle on any car you will stall it. My uncle did it in his 600hp viper and I cracked up. It also depends if im on a hill or not too and if I racing my freinds lol

Answer 3

There is no specific RPM to engage a clutch. You use the revs. that best fit the situation and the particular vehicle.

If you want long clutch life, these RPM's will be as low as the vehicle/ situation will allow.

While learning, it is probably best to give more RPM than needed, then "dwell" the clutch pedal when the car starts to move, slipping it until the car has gained sufficient speed to match the RPM's used.

A downhill start, for instance, will require very low RPM - you might even let the vehicle roll away, then engage the clutch with the engine at idle.  

An uphill start obviously will require more.

It is merely a learning curve to judge just what RPM's to use, and again, it depends on the vehicle make/ model/ condition, and the particular situation and passenger load.

"Practice makes perfect". Things will fall into place with time.