The Life of a New Clutch and Flywheel

[Jehu]

For posterity i will make this thread to mark the installation of these new parts in the 540.So far it has only been taken on a test drive by the shop owner and driven home about 15 miles by me,stalling twice and chirping the tires a few times to avoid stalling. The pedal is feather light now.I'd been used to a fair amount of resistance for the last six months so this will take some unlearning.On a humorous note while driving the rentals the last few days on more than one occasion did i shove my foot onto the vacant floorboard where the clutch pedal is in the Bimmer out of reflex habit,lol.If we here on Earth survive longer than my Clutch and Flywheel, someone may benefit if i can still post ,if i still own the car when they need to be replaced again by seeing how long the BMW parts last.The shop owner told me everything looked original to him that would mean about 154,000 miles,not half bad.I assume the fact i was a newb to manual transmission clutch pedal/stick shifting accelerated their demise but we'll see if these have a similar lifespan.If i ever sell the car I'll tell the buyer about Bimmer.info and ask them to update the board on the car for general interest purposes but i have no thoughts of selling it in the foreseeable future.What the hell else could i possibly buy? Oh yah, the shop owner said my exhaust is rattling from within the muffler and there are cracked flanges.How much of an effect on performnace might these issues have aside from the obvious muffler falling off while passing another Corvette.