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.I'm thinking it'd only be a a month. The most is 2 and that's just worst case scenario. I really doubt two months though. It's just i want to install the header asap but have a couple bills I need to pay first. I'll look into those thanks
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Energy SuspensionWow that's great to hear! What inserts do you have?
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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.Well I got the inserts already being shipped out to me.. but to day I checked my car (should've done it before) and noticed 2 mounts broken :/ .... so I'm guessing just get some actual motor mounts now right? Or just replace them with oem and put the inserts?
Will have to put buying my RH on hold for now I guess
Btw so the motor mounts that I buy off kseries come with transmission mounts or are they a separate buy. Cause I heard my friend talking about a transmission mount. Sorry if it's a dumb question I'm new to this lol.
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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.But I can't use the inserts on the mounts that need to be replaced. You're saying use the inserts on the other two mounts and replace the broken mounts with the oem mounts? That won't mess my header up?
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Checkout K series parts. Also go online and checkout Vibratechnics website, or look at feedback from other drivers who have installed them.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Rear wheel drive car engines rock left to right. On a front wheel drive car like the RSX the front and rear mounts work the hardest because the engine is rocking forwards and backwards from the torque. I never had any issues with the OEM side mounts even when pumping out 365 whp. I would buy OEM for both side mounts just because they will transmit less vibration to the cabin than aftermarket ones. If you feel the need to buy an aftermarket mount then do it with the transmission mount on the driver side.Ok so I'm just going to put the inserts on the front and rear and get side mounts. I thought about it and what if I get one aftermarket mount and one oem mount? Which side would benefit more from having a stronger aftermarket mount, the passanger or the driver side mount? Thanks
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I'm glad you’re happy with the inserts. As I pointed out earlier to you if all four mounts are in good shape the inserts can handle the task even with 365 whp. Most of us don’t have a money tree growing in our backyard and its about getting the most performance out of every dollar you spend. Once you are bitten by the horsepower bug my next recommendation is to jump straight to force induction. You can spend big dollars on a NA build just to make the same horsepower as a simple bolt on supercharger.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
