Genuine Engine Mounts vs copies vs poly?
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Just looking at the Minispares site and I find this a bit confusing?

I'm after genuine mounts, but mini spares seem to be telling me to buy copies?
http://minispares.com/product/Classic/Engi...k%20to%20search

I've also been told by a few people to avoid the poly ones?

Any thoughts? I've currently got captive nut ones and they are rubbish.

personally I don't recall spending the sort of money on genuine ones, not to say I haven't stumbled upon them.

I generally use the cheap ones and haven't had any issues with performance, however they can be a bit of a pain to line up sometimes (not sure how good the originals were)

polly mounts dont flex enough, the standard mounts 'squash' slightly when you fit them the polly ones dont making lining up the bold holes impossible well maybe not impossible but i had given up and bought rubber ones before getting the polly ones bolted down,
the rubber copies i fitted this time round out lasted the 'gen rover' rubber bushes that was on the suspension
and the captive nut ones i looked over looked to be lacking in the nut department so i welded some nuts on to normal ones

Yes i moved to the darkside

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I bought the minispares captive nut ones for mine, had no problems fitting them? What were the issues you had with them?

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I've never had any luck with the captive nut mounts when i've tried them in the past; maybe the way I install but it is always a pain to line up the holes and unless you get them bang on, the bolts never locate without the use of a lever which invariably screws up the threads

I tried the captive nut ones and screwed the theads levering them into place. Reverted to normal ones and glued the nut to the end of a wooden bbq skewer to get it in place, which worked well.

I swapped to the 2 piece poly ones on the race car. Easy to fit but you need to hold the engine on the hoist to get the pins in!

I seems OK although its very well braced due to the internal gear linkage. Not sure they would hold to tight if you just had the dog bone and an exhaust bracket to go on.

Agree with Jamie on the captive nuts!

The latest genuine ones are shit. Mine were broken in double quick time - maybe 1500 miles max. I do what Mini Spares say!

Just an update on this, we have managed to secure the original drawings/specs for the original mounts and these should be available soon, these will be better than any engine mount currently available.

I ended up getting the copy ones as suggested by the mini spares site and they flew on... absolutely no problems what so ever.

That's good. I have those and the engine goes in tomorrow...

Copies Captive no problem..

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I use solids with captive nuts. I drilled them out and use a bolt with nylocs. Needed some fettling to fit!

I'd either use proper Rover mounts or poly mounts.

Modern rubber seems to be bollocks so I'd use the real deal, or go poly.

I fitted all new bushes to my car 5 years ago and they are already worse then the 18 year old ones that were removed.

all the suspension will be getting poly bushed over winter.

I found ploy mounts seem to tear rather than wear and ended up replacing them fairly often especially on stabiliser mounts.

i've tried the poly's hard to fit so went back to the standard with no issues

The only thing I have found with poly bushes is there so hard they transfer more vibration through the car at all engine speeds, does any one else find this?..

Edited by nala56 on 26th Sep, 2012.

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Found that as well, just noisy hard to fit.. Same goes for the heavy duty normal ones as well, have a friend who fitted them by mistake to his resto and had the engine out three times and stripped and checked as he had massive vibrations, and it turned out to be the hard competition normal mounts he fitted in error.