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A mate of mine bought these engine mounts and they seem very stiff, has anyone else tried them out?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-Front-Engine- ... 638Q2em124

they looked alright to me yesterday will hold the motor nice and firm.

i was looking at them also .
i guess the hold firm . but do they break ?

they just look like bits of rubber with a bolt through them, Id go with bmw bushs buddy

The Bmw ones are too soft for rallying, i have heard of a few people ripping them out.........

If its a 6pot look at ford RS2000 ones, they do a race/rally spec- identical to M20 mounts

Burtons do them mail order

I still have a few subframe repair/re-inforcements kits left.

sorry for the hijack

WHat do they consist of?

Trise30rally wrote:A mate of mine bought these engine mounts

I was looking at a set of these for my m30, would be interesting to know how your mate gets on with them

I ran solid ally mounts on my 325,worked fine,only a tiny bit of extra vibration,mostly on start up. Wouldnt fancy them on a four pot

Bought something very similar from U.S Ebay. Solid polyurethane, also came with the gearbox mounts.
Never got to use them, sold them to Ric 325i, who was going to use them in his M30 conversion.
Not sure if he ever did. HTH.

Bought something very similar from U.S Ebay. Solid polyurethane, also came with the gearbox mounts.
Never got to use them, sold them to Ric 325i, who was going to use them in his M30 conversion.
Not sure if he ever did. HTH.

JimmyC wrote:If its a 6pot look at ford RS2000 ones, they do a race/rally spec- identical to M20 mounts

Burtons do them mail order

Handy tip - i'll have to remember that!!
Cheers Jimmy!!!

JimmyC wrote:If its a 6pot look at ford RS2000 ones, they do a race/rally spec- identical to M20 mounts

Burtons do them mail order

Like these??

http://www.rallydesign.co.uk/product_in ... s_id=13039

nope they dont look right, they are identical to the BMW ones to look at less the locating lug

https://www.burtonpower.com/product_main.aspx?home.aspx

search for FP292

i havent a bad thing to say about them mate, they are just a chunk of polly with a bolt through but it does work well, i was a little worried about them at 1st because they have no plate on the top but all's well

heres a pic of them fitted on mine a couple of weeks ago. . a couple of hard weeks at that

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... highlight=

Just went and found your thread

JimmyC wrote:https://www.burtonpower.com/product_main.aspx?home.aspx

search for FP292

Handy to know

For what its worth, my BMW mountss failed at LLandow resulting in a smashed radiator and damaged gear linkage. I've now got the RS2000 jobs and have done the Ring and other tracks without any problems. Highly recommended!

I fitted the RS2000 ones to my old e30 race car when I built it (now Shorty73's car) and it's done nearly 4 full years of racing without fault! They are much stronger than the BMW ones but not as harsh on the engine mount arms as solid ones. It's not un-common for the alloy arms to break if you go the full hog and buy solid ones.

Trise30rally wrote:WHat do they consist of?

a plate to go under the mount tab and a "box" to reinforce the bracket
(plate hidden in that picture)

Uwe's kits are well worth the having, especially if you're using harder mounts and driving on track or doing hill climbs etc.

This is what the above looks like when mounted on the car.

Theo325 wrote:Uwe's kits are well worth the having, especially if you're using harder mounts and driving on track or doing hill climbs etc.

This is what the above looks like when mounted on the car.

like your droplinks. Next on my list......

I'd just like to say thanks to JimmyC for posting the link to those RS2000 mounts. I was looking for some mounts for my 316 E21 M42 engine conversion, and these looked ideal mounts... and they were! Dead cheap, £24 delivered for the two and they seem very solid.


(Subframe mounts aren't welded in yet, they will be tomorrow)

Cheers

are the RS2000 mounts a lot stiffer?
i've got no real strength issues with my M20 ones but the weight of the M30 lump and the close proximity to the column are still causing me clearance problems on hard left handers. not a lot of fun on the ring!