Who is the manufacturer on these?

 

Darn . . . and I could have done them while I had the tranny out.

Fabricator TBA when Excelerate is confident these will pass our field tests.

Ruf

 

This is an XLR8 product.

Sorry, wish it were quicker.

And no the fabricator will not be announced. This is a private label project for XLR8 only.

 

Werent these supposed to come in on monday?

 

Ive given up hope

 

yea modding this car gets frustrating, so few options besides custom stuff.

 

Update?

 

these mounts are as real as unicorns and santa clause

 

There is no Santa Clause ?

 

 

LIAR's

 

Anyhoo.

Josh and/or Ruf, any updates?

 

LOL

Seriously, though, these mounts have been "shipped" a number of times. Unfortunately, this is the nature of the game. I don't even get mad anymore b/c no one in this industry is reliable. I will keep pressuring the fabricator.

 

tell them the next time they say they are going to or about to ship it to get a tracking number.

 

tell them your going to break their knees

 

lol it's funny. Ever since I came to this forum I've been ignoring these motor mount threads.

Then I get my car back from the dealer for a timing belt (really not that expensive. ~700 for the whole 7 year service) but of course, I get a phone call from them saying the front and passenger side motor mounts are busted. The motor mounts pretty much doubled what I thought I was going to pay at the dealer

 

. . . . this is sooo painful.

My apologies, I've been extremely busy with 2 cars down for major repairs and work (rebuilding one that was totaled), things going wrong left and right around the house), helping with the launch of a new company, finding a job. Anyway, I've started pinging folks again so we'll see where things stand.

Also, the Ingals Stiffy mod has really helped. I'm still needing to soften it up a bit more as the vibrations with the a/c are still too much.

As for the motor mounts, I starting to consider giving up on a performance rear mount. With the Stiffy mod harsh engine movement is really minimized and it may really eliminate the mount destruction problem . . it will at least help them last longer. Anyway, I'll hold out hope for a while longer . . . there's nothing else to do . . for now.

Ruf

 

first of all, you are welcome

and if you need another 6-speed tester, that onlys gets like 17-18 mpg (and that is with it running good too lol), i am in to test them...

 

Get in line buddy, I volunteered first

 

I get 15-16 mpg

 

i just ended up changing my front and rear mounts to new oem ones the tranny shop offered to do it labor free so i figured might as well..

 

but you still get like 24 mpg though, so you are not a good tester then....

i have only done like 3-4 tanks so far, since converting, so i am working on it... (i think the first one i actually checked was in like the high 16's though)
(i did just get like 12 mpg [stupid f***ing traffic] on the wife's subie though, after i filled it up and drove home like 15 miles; the hair dryer does not help at all) and that is a motor with only 1500 miles on it too , car has almost 16k on it

 

Whats mpg have to do with it?

 

in that it is a good indication of how you drive your car, aka higher throttle

 

I have more torque so I dont have to get on it much to get moving

 

or you could still get on it the same amount and just get there faster then



btw you say your local track is really slippery too, the one i go to is actually sticky, so more likely to break things then

 

I break things by looking at it. Once again I win.

Fries - 0
Me - 1,373 and ⅓rd.

 

along with never getting laid by a female :ghey: (except maybe if you include those s)

 

I have to disagree.

After all, your mom is all woman.

 

 

Back to the topic at hand -

Ruf, Josh, any news?

 

well . . . other than a scathing message that was delivered to the fabricator, no.

Ruf

 

 

come on...


i know i am going need motor mounts at some point, especially since i am ing now

 

something tells me these were cancelled

 

just give it 2 more years and then we will know for sure.

from the looks of it all the other xlr8 mounts that were gonna be made for acura vehicles have been made and released besides the one for our car. I would agree with phee about these being canceled or put off forever.

 

Sigh . . . that's both funny and sad. I'm beginning to suspect that designing and fabricating a mount that'll address both the reliability and reasonable driveability is too much for smaller fabricators. Especially if they try and do this with little or no input from us.

Right now I'm fairly happy with the Ingal Stiffy, OEM rear and Innovative front (3rd gen with black bushings) and side mounts. I think with this set up the OEM rear will hold up as the motor movement is minimal so the there's a lot less stress on all the mounts.

The only question is for those that want no vibrations . . or very very minimal
can the Stiffy be set soft enough for them and still do the job.

Ruf

 

If your Stiffy is set to soft you need some Cialis.

 

such an off topic comment

 

lol



but evem ingall's was like it is a battle with people wanting no additional vibrations , while still being able to control the motor, in that it is not going to happen