has anyone done/would it hurt my car to make the dogbones solid mounts? i know its gonna shake like crazy if i do but i just wanna make sure it wont hurt it

 

Solid poly, or solid as in physically bolt the cylinder head mount to the radiator?

A did see a GP on clubgp that did solid mounts- ie mechanically connected the cylinder head mount and coil pack mount directly to the radiator support.

I could've swore he said it wasn't bad- not too much worse than the hardest polys out there (you've got the figure, the bulk of the engine weight is on the lower mounts- so you're only getting a small part of the total vibration transfer with solid uppers. If you're sticking with a stock cam, and its not your only car- I don't see a problem.


edit- found a thread on clubgp, looks like a few people have done them (one guy even claimed doing all 4 mounts out of steel):

dunno if this will work:

http://www.clubgp.com/newforum/tm.as...anguage=single

Seems like a lot of people in that thread replaced the square mount with either steel or aluminum, but left the round rubber mounts on the other side of the dogbone.

I do know I've seen one before that was physically bolted on both ends straight metal to metal, but I can't find the thread.