engine mounts

[wildturkey]

may need to swap mine out............have heard there are round and square ones............will they both fit my 89 rs leggy ....and which ones are best?

[dubbedup]

square. the reason for this being better is they have this bit of metal which will only allow the mount to only move a bit if its broken, vs round which when break just end up being two bits of rubber - excess movement which cause stuff like front diffs to break (as i found out h hard way)

and yes both will fit.

[Guest boostin]

Round are fluid-filled, square are solid rubber. The square ones break a lot less too. It's hip to be square.

[ReubenH]

Also turbo and N/A are different. I put some square N/A mounts in matts GTB since i had them lying round and both his round ones had died.

Yeah, the N/A ones are smaller, and no where near as stiff, so apparently the engines all over the fucking place!

[wildturkey]

Kool square ones it is! cheers

[Stoffa]

ive got two you can have, one of them has a very small hairline crack on the surface, see what you think when you see it. I got two new ones cheap

[Guest keltik]

Ive got 2 here joe if you need them. Got them off tony but they wouldnt fit my motor

[wildturkey]

 keltik said:

Ive got 2 here joe if you need them. Got them off tony but they wouldnt fit my motor

hey cheers for that bro..........i already scored sum off TM and I fitted them up today. Got the job done and learnt a lot in the process..........check out how fucked that passenger mount was. as soon as I jacked it up it just dropped away from the top half. I think its been like that for quite some time. The drivers side one was ok.

prick of a job..........don't wana do that again in a hurry.

I would recommend taking the radiator out next time because the extractors started to hit the fans as we raised the engine. Luckily it didn't limit the height we needed. I would also recommend taking off the brace that sits under the top mount.........I didn't take mine off strait away but when I did it made things a little easier. Pretty tight space to work in especially the drivers side but a little perseverence and I got the damn things out. I put rex ones back in they are solid rubber square ones.

quite a noticeable difference in reduction of engine vibration

[shrug]

Haha we sure learnt the hard way didnt we dubbedup.

[Scoobydoo]

The brace that sits under the top mount, didn't we tell you on Thursday that you would have to take that off?

Anyway, good stuff. Did you take notes / pics of what you did for future (anyone else's) reference?

[wildturkey]

 Scoobydoo said:

The brace that sits under the top mount, didn't we tell you on Thursday that you would have to take that off?

Anyway, good stuff. Did you take notes / pics of what you did for future (anyone else's) reference?

yeah u did tell me ;D................but then someone else who has actually changed their own mounts on a BC5 told me they didn't need to take theirs off so I didn't........at first.

nah, couldn't be arsed taking pics but happy to talk others thru it