Yesterday I sucessfully installed 2 sets of Polyurethane Motor mounts into my car! I had first bought my Prothane kit about a year ago but had trouble installing it.
Then about a month ago I decided to buy the E.S. Mounts becasue I thought I wasn't going to be able to install the Prothane mounts.
Well I discovered that I still couldn't install all of the Prothane Mounts due to imposible removal of one of the stock mounts. But instead I was able to use 2 of the 3 mounts from the E.S. kit to install in my car along with 1 of the Prothan kits totalling 3 mounts installed! (There are 5 mounts total in our tegs and I got 3 out of 5 mounts installed!)
What I found out was that the only thing that the 2 sets shared was the rear mount! The other 2 mounts were different.
E.S uses the two lower front mounts while Prothane uses the two upper front mounts. And the one thats shared is the rear mount. So in essence, you can have both sets instaleed and have one set of rear mount extra.
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According to this scan of the mounts in our cars, the Prothane kit uses the Side Engine Mount, Transmision Mount, and the Rear Mount. thas all of the top three mounts.
While the E.S kit uses the Right Front Mount, Left Front Mount, and the Rear Mount, which according to this picture are the 2 lower pictures and the top middle one.
As for eliminating the wheel hop? Not totally. I still get minimal wheel hop from midrange to redline. Minimal that it. Its better than without the Motor Mounts though.
Most noticeable if the motion of the vehicle. You know that motion of inertia when you are pushing your car to the limit in first and shift to second. You know, that feeling that your front end lifts up when you floor it and then it settles back down momentarily until you shift into second and floor it again. Well, that seems to be eliminated some too.
As for those harse vibrations fron the engine??? What vibration? I have practically no vibration at all (at least not so anoying like I'm been hearing). Maybe at idle (and I mean at idle only) it may feel like its vibrating somewhat like when your idle is a set too low, but no harse vibration at accelerating from idle at all.
I rate this to be a very good upgrade. Hopefully when I can figure out how to do the rear mount on more time and some way to do that side mount, all the wheel hop will be eliminated.
And if at that time, I still get a little wheel hop, I'll just add the Z10 traction bars!
Then about a month ago I decided to buy the E.S. Mounts becasue I thought I wasn't going to be able to install the Prothane mounts.
Well I discovered that I still couldn't install all of the Prothane Mounts due to imposible removal of one of the stock mounts. But instead I was able to use 2 of the 3 mounts from the E.S. kit to install in my car along with 1 of the Prothan kits totalling 3 mounts installed! (There are 5 mounts total in our tegs and I got 3 out of 5 mounts installed!)
What I found out was that the only thing that the 2 sets shared was the rear mount! The other 2 mounts were different.
E.S uses the two lower front mounts while Prothane uses the two upper front mounts. And the one thats shared is the rear mount. So in essence, you can have both sets instaleed and have one set of rear mount extra.
According to this scan of the mounts in our cars, the Prothane kit uses the Side Engine Mount, Transmision Mount, and the Rear Mount. thas all of the top three mounts.
While the E.S kit uses the Right Front Mount, Left Front Mount, and the Rear Mount, which according to this picture are the 2 lower pictures and the top middle one.
As for eliminating the wheel hop? Not totally. I still get minimal wheel hop from midrange to redline. Minimal that it. Its better than without the Motor Mounts though.
Most noticeable if the motion of the vehicle. You know that motion of inertia when you are pushing your car to the limit in first and shift to second. You know, that feeling that your front end lifts up when you floor it and then it settles back down momentarily until you shift into second and floor it again. Well, that seems to be eliminated some too.
As for those harse vibrations fron the engine??? What vibration? I have practically no vibration at all (at least not so anoying like I'm been hearing). Maybe at idle (and I mean at idle only) it may feel like its vibrating somewhat like when your idle is a set too low, but no harse vibration at accelerating from idle at all.
I rate this to be a very good upgrade. Hopefully when I can figure out how to do the rear mount on more time and some way to do that side mount, all the wheel hop will be eliminated.
And if at that time, I still get a little wheel hop, I'll just add the Z10 traction bars!
