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 3341 Posts Member #: 218 Post Whore Bingley, West Yorkshire |
22nd Jan, 2007 at 01:14:54pm
went to harrogate mini spares this morning for some new tower mounts, and i got recomended to get solid alloy ones and they wernt much price difference from the rubber ones.
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22nd Jan, 2007 at 01:25:48pm
dont see the problem with having solid towers and rubber feet tbh. Personally i'd solid mount the floor aswell, my car felt a lot nicer when i solid mounted it all. On 20th Oct, 2015 Tom Fenton said:
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 2742 Posts Member #: 637 Post Whore Hertfordshire |
22nd Jan, 2007 at 01:40:39pm
agree with bud.
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 8297 Posts Member #: 408 Turbo Love Palace Fool Aylesbury |
22nd Jan, 2007 at 01:52:38pm
Ive always been led to believe that the solid mounts put to much stress on the rear mounts as the later shells don't have the extra gusseting that the older shells do? https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fusion-Fabri..._homepage_panel
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 9258 Posts Member #: 123 Post Whore Betwix Harrogate and York |
22nd Jan, 2007 at 01:53:15pm
Solid mount it all is the best advive. But ONLY solid tower mounts is better than no solid mounts at all. Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph
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 7765 Posts Member #: 74 I pick holes in everything.. Chief ancient post excavator |
22nd Jan, 2007 at 02:04:57pm
I'd nver fit solid mounts to the towers only. The inner wings will suffer as this is the only firm place for the subframe to be mounted. Fit the ones on the rear as well, then you're ok. The worst is if you fit only tear drop solid ones. THe front panel would soon fall of. Almost at least :) On 13th Jul, 2012 Ben H said:
Mine gets in the way a bit, but only when it is up. If it is down it does not cause a problem. |
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 45 Posts Member #: 318 Member Edinburgh |
22nd Jan, 2007 at 02:41:29pm
My old mini used to have solid floors and standard towers, tore the floor pretty badly around both floor mounts.
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 1840 Posts Member #: 54 Post Whore nr coventry |
22nd Jan, 2007 at 04:49:54pm
feebs, i have solid mounted my car at the front, towers,floor & teardrops, felt a noticable differance in how much more precise the steering felt, no real differance in noise, its a good mod i must say SKYLINES ARE LIKE CLITS, EVERY FLANGE SEEMS TO HAVE ONE: see this sticker on my silvia
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 2645 Posts Member #: 1246 Post Whore Lowestoft, Suffolk. |
22nd Jan, 2007 at 08:57:11pm
I also had problems with solid floor mounts tearing the floor, now running solid towers, polly tear drop, and rubber floor mounts, still feels firm handling and not a noticble increase in noise.
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3341 Posts Member #: 218 Post Whore Bingley, West Yorkshire |
22nd Jan, 2007 at 09:25:31pm
thankyou!
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2742 Posts Member #: 637 Post Whore Hertfordshire |
22nd Jan, 2007 at 11:19:23pm
do you gain much in handling, response when changing the tear drop mounts to solid ones? My build thread..
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 2514 Posts Member #: 1217 I like nice quiet girly Minis Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
22nd Jan, 2007 at 11:20:12pm
I'm with Vegard on this. If your going to do the top mounts you need to stop the rest of the subframe movement or else something will give up sooner or later. Most places that do solid top mounts do them as a kit that at least sorts out the front / teardrop mounts too.
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3596 Posts Member #: 655 Post Whore Northern Ireland |
22nd Jan, 2007 at 11:51:03pm
On 22nd of Jan, 2007 at 02:04pm Vegard said:
I'd nver fit solid mounts to the towers only. The inner wings will suffer as this is the only firm place for the subframe to be mounted. Fit the ones on the rear as well, then you're ok. The worst is if you fit only tear drop solid ones. THe front panel would soon fall of. Almost at least :) I had nylon tower mounts on mine, but with rubber on the rest. I would tend to agree with what you are saying, as my car did make some very strange, not not nice noises under hard acceleration and braking. But I did have the car apart a few times, even performing some extra welding around the front towers ( very little though ) I could never see any stressed areas, or anything that caused me concern... The noises were always there though, so Id say something wasnt liking the solid mounts. 9.85 @ 145mph
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