Funny, my thought process was the same. I installed inserts thinking like you that after several months later I would upgrade the mounts. Well two years later the inserts are still performing well supporting a 365 whp aftercooled supercharged engine running on E85. I have no issues with cracks in the header, or little to none with wheel hop as you can see from the short video. I’m glad I spent my money in other hp mods.
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^ Ran these inserts on my DC2 turbo with new OEM mounts. Night and day difference on launches, wheel hop was 90% gone. No more busted axles.
you gotta buy it separate. Usually the kits come with driver, passenger, and rear mounts.
Not necessarily. If they are torn you might be still be alright. Look how the insert works. The inserts fills in the motor mount’s cavities - wall to wall material with no voids. As you can see all sides of the oem mount and the insert are enclosed in steel and cannot shift any direction. You might be doubting me right about now but my front mount was torn as well - and it still works with the help of the insert. Be careful if you buy aftermarket motor mounts because most of them are too hard and will transfer a lot of engine vibration into the cabin. Heads up, the passenger side motor mount is challenging for some motor mount manufactures to make correctly - again transferring to much vibration. Vibratechnics makes a good product and a set of mounts will cost you around $450 - not cheap. In my opinion aftermarket motor mounts are over advertized. Its interesting how much abuse OEM front and rear mounts can take with the help of inserts and at the same time minimize the amount of vibration from being transferred into the cabin. By the way, my orginal OEM motor mounts are still performing well after 15 years and 187,000 miles of wear and tear.
..So I pretty much can't even use the inserts for the mounts I need to get replaced. What's my best option? Getting those two oem mounts brand new for about $170 and adding the inserts to the other 2 mounts that can be used with them or just buying aftermarket mounts?
You're correct, the driver and passenger side motor mounts do not use inserts, Either buy new oem units or replace them with some Vibratechnics units. Remember I don’t recommend using the majority of the aftermarket passenger side units. In my experience because the front and rear mounts do most of the work you can easily get by using the oem side mounts. Don’t be surprised if one of your front or rear mounts isn't damaged. I didn’t know that my front one was torn until I installed the insert.
Yes exactly.
