I went from performance to pure hell.

yep, sounds like the clutch is shot. That's a tell-tale sign of slippage. the clutch basically isn't creating enough friction to grab hold of the flywheel, so the engine revs (flywheel spins) but it's not being transferred to the tranny and halfshafts (clutch can't create enough friction).

Originally posted by Johns95EX


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VieT916,

This is exactly what happens. After driving most of the day I tested a little bit. I was driving nicely at 55MPH, and upshifted from 4th to 2nd. The MPH didn't change, but the RPM's went from 3500 to about 8000, with no change in the MPH at all.

That would then indicate that it's time to replace the clutch?