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it works for now, but the bolt was BARELY long enough, and it needs something in there to dampen the vibration. where would be the best place to put something to dampen it? and what easy/cheap material would you suggest? i thought about part of a motorcycle inner tube.. i have a few laying around. would that be stiff enough? also... How much should i crank down on it? the washers are compressing the top hockey puck a bit.
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All I have to add is that your under carraige looks awesome! Very Clean.
I'm not really sure how a ported L36 Manifold should look, so I'm not much on that one.
Same with the hockey puck mount, however, it looks pretty solid, I would imagine you will get some wikid steering wheel vibrations though?
Let me know how that LIM Porting goes. I have a new LIM and you telling me how much improvement it gives your car will get me moving on getting mine done.
I tried some 80 cent rubber washers underneath there, and it helped, but the vibration was still there. I think they were too soft. My mount is now using a marshmellow spring by Firestone. These are specifically designed to dampen vibration on the heavy machinery at my dad's work. They replace conventional springs in a lot of these machines, and it works much better now. there is only a hint of vibration at low throttle in 2nd gear (about 30mph) but not enough to bother me. i have an old crusty endlink between the bolt and frame on the bottom, and it helped, but im sure a new one would work even better. I could also put one on the top as i have plenty of bolt left, but i will leave it for now.
bonnevillain wrote:I tried some 80 cent rubber washers underneath there, and it helped, but the vibration was still there. I think they were too soft. My mount is now using a marshmellow spring by Firestone. These are specifically designed to dampen vibration on the heavy machinery at my dad's work. They replace conventional springs in a lot of these machines, and it works much better now. there is only a hint of vibration at low throttle in 2nd gear (about 30mph) but not enough to bother me. i have an old crusty endlink between the bolt and frame on the bottom, and it helped, but im sure a new one would work even better. I could also put one on the top as i have plenty of bolt left, but i will leave it for now.
here's mine: almost the exact same size as 3 hockey pucks
Can you get more of those? If/when i get another SSEi i would like one.
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that looks nice! After driving mine for a month or so i forgot about the vibration...My girlfriend doesn't even notice anymore!
1997 Park Avenue Ultra...by Buick
SS autochrome headers with a 3 magna flow cat, 3 inch pipe back to the Y, and stock muffs. Homemade hot air intake, Intense pcm, and ZZP mps(3.8/3.4). Solid hockey puck mount. KYB Gr-2's up front, 180*T-stat, Ported GEN III, autolite 104's. DDM 6K Hid's
Anyway, looks good. I wish I had just gone against my mom's urge to put the stock front trans mount in. She paid for it, but at the time If I had known the rear trans mount was bad as well, I would have had her pay for the rear mount and I'd have made the solid front mount anyway...
