Have you noticed much of a difference with the torque damper compared to just the stiffer engine mounts? Still thinking about having a mounting setup made that will work with my ASM tower bar.

 

That radiator plate anodized black looks 100x better than the red. I still like the red but this looks much cleaner. Excellent choice

 

Yea they are a nice touch. let me know if you want a Mugen sticker as well. I bought a pack of them and have extras. I can part with one.

 

Shifting felt better in the upper rpms when I first went out of a test drive, but it's possibly placebo and if not I'm used to it now anyways. Car feels good. I'll see how shifting feels at the track on Saturday.

 

Nice S man and build! Question for you, what do you think of the Spoon engine/tranny mounts? I'm running an Ingalls ETD and it definitely helps, but at some point I'm going to need/want to change the mounts. I don't want too much vibration though. How do the Spoon compare to OEM? Also did you look into the Vibra technics mounts at all?

 

Thanks for the info. Hardtopguy was where I saw them before. Looks like Handa has them too, but their shipping is higher and they charge sales tax for CA deliveries.

 

I absolutely love the spoon mounts. I didn't think they'd be much different from factory since they look almost identical, but they are definitely stiffer and makes my car feel brand new. There's definitely more vibration at idle. People say it will go away, but mine hasn't after 2-3 weeks so far. But it doesn't bother me at all. You also get a very slight but noticeable transmission whine coming through at certain rpms.

I didn't really look at anything else since I wanted oem, only slightly stiffer. Really happy with them.

 

For me the additional vibration is still there after a few months, but it seems to be lessening even after a fairly long period of time. Any weird additional interior vibrations I have gotten at idle I have been able to easily sort out. The weirdest vibration I got from the mounts was with my front bumper. The top part of the inside front grill area that sits right below the front bumper support was sort of vibrating at idle that started making a really annoying sound at idle, but easily fixed with a little bit of foam.

Probably the biggest change in NVH with the mounts is just the overall increase in volume from everything. You hear everything just a little more, engine, transmission, exhaust, and so on. I don't know why but I really like the extra transmission noise.

 

Yeah seeing that really makes me want to get the carbon version..

I just put in and order for some of those fancy expensive bolts. Your nice photos made me spend money.

 

Couple rolling shots.