Solid Engine mounts

kid nismo · Post by **kid nismo** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:46 pm

I've had the solid mounts in my car for like 6 months, and the shakes are becoming a real nightmare.

My whole car feels like it's falling to peices.

In the begining it was fine, but now the car feels cheap and weak.....

just curious to see how many guys here use solid mounts, and if so is it causing you real grief? (thinking maybe it's the tune?)

i'm seriously thinking of going but to the stock mounts, but i will lose the nice direct gear change i get with the solid mounts.

cheers

dj_djox · Post by **dj_djox** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:07 am

ey mate where did you buy the mounts from coz i need some?

thanks

Timmzy · Post by **Timmzy** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:59 am

You might find with solid mounts that all of your bolts in the engine/chassis start coming loose. And your needles start falling off on the instrument cluster.

At least thats what has happened to me. So I went back to the original mounts and now the engine moves so much that the turbo keeps trying to undo itself and it is attached to a flex pipe.

So the next step, is that I am going to get some 'soft' nylon and try to machine myown up.

Darren

Callumgw · Post by **Callumgw** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:02 pm

A happy medium might be to drill some holes in the neoprene solid mounts to soften them a little. Four to six evenly spaced 8-10mm holes might do it. This layout is a guess, as is the hole diameters. But before you through away the mounts might be worth a try.

C

et_rider · Post by **et_rider** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:05 pm

Just an idea mate what if you took the solid side mounts off and returned them to stock ones and kept the solid back that way you will have the direct gear change still and it wont vibrate like crazy just an idea i dont now what you get with the mounts

Android 360 · Post by **Android 360** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:33 pm

just drill holes thru em in a few places to get a bit of movement.
ive had mine in for ages now (my car was the guinea pig for em) the rattling is annoying but the car feels a lot better to drive.... the rattles are a lil embarrassing tho haha

kid nismo · Post by **kid nismo** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:31 pm

Android 360 wrote:just drill holes thru em in a few places to get a bit of movement.
ive had mine in for ages now (my car was the guinea pig for em) the rattling is annoying but the car feels a lot better to drive.... the rattles are a lil embarrassing tho haha

People who sit in my car think it's gonna fall apart lol. I guess its a fair trade off for a better drive.

Might try drilling the mounts.

cheers