A few things away to get done. Need help choosing clutch, engine mounts and ARBs

[Poverty]

wayne has the VF engineering lower mount and he always beats me off the line because of it.

[Rob GTI]

I am looking a just the lower engine mount to reduce wheel hop and preserve my milltek. So its good to here that the noise of the VWR is the same as the powerflex, but does the VWR item do a better job at preventing wheel hop as its a lot more money to pay than the Powerflex??

....The VWR Lower Mount does a great job of delivering the power down - Better than just a 3-prong poly insert (which I had before).

Info here : - http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5082.msg77924#msg77924

How many miles did you have the powerflex bush in for as I had one in my Mk 2 Leon and thought it was great, although it was only in there for less than 5k miles, and my fear was that it looked a bit flimsy to cope with 300 or so horses pulling at it.

[Rob GTI]

@ Sy quite surpirsed you would be getting mad wheel hop, I'd imagine the mount would have done quite a few miles and worn out??

[RedRobin]

How many miles did you have the powerflex bush in for as I had one in my Mk 2 Leon and thought it was great, although it was only in there for less than 5k miles, and my fear was that it looked a bit flimsy to cope with 300 or so horses pulling at it.

....Without delving into loads of paperwork and doing mathematics, I reckon something over 30k miles. Sorry if this is off topic but here's a pic of my Neuspeed Torque Arm Insert mashed when it was taken out : -



^ The upper left item is the VWR 'Fast Road' Lower Engine Mount. Their 'Race' one which Mat has is solid.

[Janner_Sy]

@ Sy quite surpirsed you would be getting mad wheel hop, I'd imagine the mount would have done quite a few miles and worn out??

no its still fine. only been in for around 4k. i was merely pointing out that i thought the insert didnt really do much in comparison to the vwr lower mount tbh. but it is only cheap. 

[Rob GTI]

Robin, Whats the third lower left mount in the photo then??

[Rob GTI]

@ Sy quite surpirsed you would be getting mad wheel hop, I'd imagine the mount would have done quite a few miles and worn out??

no its still fine. only been in for around 4k. i was merely pointing out that i thought the insert didnt really do much in comparison to the vwr lower mount tbh. but it is only cheap. 

Did you not see any wheel hop reduction at all with the powerflex?

[RobH]

Robin, Whats the third lower left mount in the photo then??

its the top half of the neuspeed insert base thingy. I didnt notice anything from the powerflex insert either, now running with solid vwr mount but gonna swap for fast road one when clutch gets done, the Seat plastic fantastic interior is taking a beating .

[Rob GTI]

DJ Apologies for hijacking your thread mate, if I have any more q's after this I'll start my own thread.

[micky 32]

Are the bottom mount inserts any good? They were advised by miltek so it wouldn't break their exhausts

[MAT ED30]

Robin, Whats the third lower left mount in the photo then??

its the top half of the neuspeed insert base thingy. I didnt notice anything from the powerflex insert either, now running with solid vwr mount but gonna swap for fast road one when clutch gets done, the Seat plastic fantastic interior is taking a beating .

thats funny

[RedRobin]

Are the bottom mount inserts any good? They were advised by miltek so it wouldn't break their exhausts

....Milltek now include a free torque arm insert with their systems to help reduce the chances of breakages. A remapped car with oem engine mounts will shove more stresses through there AFAIK.

One of my mounts broke once upon a time (reported a while ago when it happened ) : -