i got a chance to look at what it would take to install today. looks like if you took off the lower belly pan you should be able to gain access to the mounts. you may also need to unbolt the a/c and the alternator to gain the room to pull the old mounts out. the new ones are alot smaller around and would go in fairily easily.
there really is no trick to it. the only thing is lifting the motor enough to pull the old mounts out. my advice would be to put the front on jackstands and then use a jack to push the motor up from the bottom.

 

it won't show any gains on a dyno. all you are doing is eliminating the loss of power soaked up by the motor initially twisting. a glass of water would prolly not even show any signs of rippling even, it is pretty smooth.

 

hence the title "solid motor mounts" hahaha. they do not raise the engine! they actually lower it about 1/8th to a 1/4" making it possible to run a 1/2" intake spacer and still use the stock strut bar.

 

ok so it wont equal out to hp and tq gain, BUT wouldnt eliminating a loss of power equal the same power only having it come on faster then it would with the stock mounts? that should show up on dyno shouldnt it?

no power gain, just have the whole hp and tq curve come on a little sooner ie at less of rpm then the stock mounts. right?

 

Intrested in these, shoot me a PM

 

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it would be very hard to see it on the dyno. most of it is going to be in driver feel really. plus never having to worry about breaking a stock mount down the road from too much stress. for turbo guys it will help keep the motor stable to help eliminate rubbing the piping on the engine bay that can lead to a pipe coming loose.

 

What size and grade bolts are you using?

 

i'm also interested pm me

 

i used 1/2" fine thread grade 8 with a nylock nut. i had to drill out the actual mount on the motor a little bit to fit it. i know people won't be able to get a drill in there with the motor still in the engine bay, so i will be including the metric equivilent to the stock bolt size. it will still be plenty strong.

 

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I can't wait to get mine!

 

Grade 8 as well?

 

Metric 10.9 or 12.9 please or is that 12.8

 

Hey, I am very interested in these. Would it hurt to use a solid tranny mount with these as well? Also, since the motor is lowered some would it hurt the geometry/positioning of the exhaust or any other components? Just PM me and let me know, I am very interested. Thanks.

 

yes the metric 12.8. that is very near the us standard grade 8.

 

it wouldn't hurt to run a solid trans mount either. just depends on how much vibration you want to deal with, the solid engine mounts and stock trans mount is how mine is set up, and vibration is hardly noticeable. it only moves the motor down 1/8th -1/4". everything should have plenty of room to move that much.

 

So when is this availible?

 

Hmmm, interesting. It should be fun around the courses in so cal to see how the car feels

 

we will be making more next week.