nice i was gonna get one from rotaryextreme but the gotham racing one is 60 bucks cheaper .. is the old adage "you get what you paid for" gonna apply here? unless theres an even cheaper and equal in quality alternative?

 

I thought you were talking about the difference between "damp" and "dampen", not "dampener" and "damper".


6 entries found for damper.
damp ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dmp)
adj. damp·er, damp·est
Slightly wet. See Synonyms at wet.
Archaic. Dejected.

n.
Moisture in the air; humidity.
Foul or poisonous gas that sometimes pollutes the air in coal mines.
Lowness of spirits; depression.
A restraint or check; a discouragement

English is so confusing.

Chuck

 

I have the above set and they work perfect. No vibration at idle, although I did spray the cradle with acustimat damping stuff where the mounts sit. Even though eventually I will have a custom titanium version, if I were to buy a set i'd custom mount a motorcycle steering damper instead.

 

Crap, I ordered one on eBay and all it did was make my engine wet.

-Max

 

 

You were correct at first... DamonB was wrong.

 

A "dampener" makes something wet. That is not what the engine torque brace does. The engine torque brace is an engine torque damper.

 

I don't have one. Don't really see need for one now, between my urethane mounts and A-Spec's Transmission brace drivetrain rock has been significantly reduced.

 

I agree with Damon on this one.

Regarding the actual issue, I have poly mounts and a tranny brace... I really don't see any way for the drivetrain to twist; it's rock solid (although I haven't driven it yet... we'll see).

 

When are you people going to just accept that maybe you don't know everything? If you do a seach for vibration dampeners or steering dampeners, or any dampener for that matter, you will find that it refers to something that reduces shock, vibration, torque, etc. as well. Motorcycles have steering dampeners, but I guarantee you won't find a drop of water in them and it has nothing to do with making the steering wet... Please, I ask you, DamonB and Broken93 to do a search (google, AOL, MSN, Netscape, etc.) and prove to yourself that the term DAMPENER can be applied to both definitions. And after you do that search and if you still feel the majority of the rest of the world is wrong, you two can begin a crusade and preach the word that we are a drunken society and use the term dampener incorrectly.



And why in the hell would someone use dampener to describe a device that makes something wet when the term sprinkler is what everyone else uses.

 

Just because some large subset of the non-engineering population uses it incorrectly does not mean that it's not incorrect anymore.

Here's another interesting thread on the topic: http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=89886

However, I'm really not that worried about it.

 

I have to say I'm with Chuck and HDP on the english debate...but seriously who really cares. I have the garfinkle and its nice...the install was a bit more than I would like though.

 

bump

 

Okay who really cares if it's damper or dampener, everyone know what was meant when it was written.

 

ttt