Anyone need to replace their motor mounts?
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Anyone need to replace their motor mounts?
I just finished putting my engine back in and decided to do the poor man's polyurethane motor mounts to replace my bad stock ones. If anyone is contemplating doing this, I highly recommend this mod. I definitely get more feedback from the engine, vibration and a throatier exhaust sound, but nothing annoying. Also with this mod there definitely is no need for a torque brace, the engine barely moves (the shift **** no longer looks like a spoon stuck in a bowl of jello). Anyways, the car feels tighter (and I like the new sounds and vibration). Can't beat new motor mounts for ~$70 (and a little bit of elbow grease).
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Originally posted by HobbeZ
how do you do this poor man's version just fill the stock ones with polyurethane?
how do you do this poor man's version just fill the stock ones with polyurethane?
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Originally posted by 93BlackFD
throatier exhaust sound? wtf? it's motor mounts
throatier exhaust sound? wtf? it's motor mounts
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The polyurethane that I used is 80 shore A, 3000 psi (amber color). I used a compound mitre saw to cut the stuff, it sort of melts as you cut it and gets all over the saw so its fairly messy. I have the earlier style motor mounts with the aluminum driver side mount. This one is a little tricky because the mount has a protrusion that goes into the stock rubber insert. You could probably machine this protrusion down so that the mount has a flat surface, I just made a recess into the polyurethane puck that matched the protrusion on the mount its hard to explain, it makes sense if you can see it but I dont have any pictures. I cut a 2.1" puck for the pass. side, and a 2.3" puck for the driver side. Then I cut two 3/8" pucks to go on the bottom of the subframe. The 6" length rod from Mcm@ster was just enough. I used two 4" length bolts to bolt the whole sandwich together. I fed the bolts up from the bottom so that the least amount of bolt protrudes down from the subrame, and used thread locker on the nuts. Maybe I can take some pictures if I can get the camera working.
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