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5-22-2014
I put the FF in on Thursday night. Then drove to OCMD on Friday for Cruisin Weekend. Had a good time with some friends and got a lot of compliments on the car, which kinda surprised me coming from domestic muscle-heads. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures
It's nice being able to drop draws and keep up with some of the big v8s.
Anyway, I made the mistake of letting a friend drive the rabbit on Sunday morning. He romped it hard in first gear (I usually tell ppl not to get on it in first). He hit it full throttle, let off, full throttle again, and then let off. Bucked pretty hard, he can't drive stick very well. The new prothane transmission mount sheared right off:
I wire tied it back up there, just so I could limp the 200miles back home to PA:
GermanAutoParts is refunding me this time, but said that they can't if it happens again because of the modifications to the car.
They were originally just going to send me another one until I researched the problem and found that this happens to the rear prothane mounts all the time.
I have HD side mounts and a BFI stg2 front mount. I'm going to make the front motor mount spacer this week to take out the slop.
Anyone have any experience with the Techtonics "race" trans mount? http://techtonicstuning.com/main/ind...roducts_id=216
It's pretty hard, I want to make sure it doesn't shear like the prothane one did. I refuse to use the solid mount and don't want to shell out the $$ for the race one if others have bad experiences as well. I had the HD one when I first did the swap and I found that one sheared in half when i replaced the trans.
