Engine Damper?

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Anyone on here ever fitted one to their CA? (maybe using one for an sr?)


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We just had a group buy on one that ended a couple of weeks ago. It was through one of our sponsors, Raw Brokerage. Check out their site and contact them about it. He said that he might get 1 or 2 in stock, but since we don't have our balancers yet, he probably doesn't have them yet.

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i think he's talking about the things that mount to the strut tower bar to make the engine more stable?

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if your worried about the engine moving... SOLID MOUNT IT haha

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but you forget the ultimate bling factor to show off to your friends that have no idea what you are talking about! lol

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I dont think i would ever run solid mounts. semi-solid with one of those dampners looks to be the ticket.

I have nismos filled with window caulking....works a treat.

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i think stock mounts work fine, and mine are in excellent condition, so unless they blow out, or i run out of things to do to my car, stockers FTW. but if i ever got some, i'd probably get Cusco ones or something. dont the Nismo ones make the engine sit higher?

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i <3 MY CUSCO Solids!

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well you could always do the $5-10 mounts and use hockey pucks

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Yeah I wasn't talking about the harmonic balancer, I was talking about the damper that mounts from your under your tower bar to brace the top of your engine. And the engine is already solid mounted, I just want more stability up top as well:D So that being said anyone ever done it???

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there shouldn't be much more stability to gain from having it. my stock mounts are pretty solid as is and the engine doesn't shake a bit. i'd recommend just using the money elsewhere like in suspension bushings or something like that. just my .2

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That's true + probably wouldn't be able to run a camber adjustment kit with one of those on there anyways... Good point:D

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^wrong

^^more wrong

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WTF?

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I mean there no way you could run an adjustable camber kit, an engine damper(that sits on the tower) and a strut brace at the same time???That seems to me it'd make things way uneven, not to mention if the bolts wouldn't have way to much stress on them from having too much sh*t to hold onto???

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incorrect again.

a camber kit could be run, and a strut tower bar, and an engine torque dampner.

maaaan

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Doh!

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Ahhh ok I see now, but you just have to use one of those weird open ended braces because it looks like some of the other bars actually hit the damper because of how it's located. Sweet

Ok you were right lols


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