tophat mounts in a kouki

[97s14pwar]

im trying to put my tophat mounts in my 97 s14. on the instructions it says to drill out the slot on the crossmember for a m12 size bolt. my questions is, how do i know if im enlarging the slot in the right spot? i dont want to drill out some or the metal and have the motor off by a bit. anyone else run into this before with tophat mounts?

[homeslicej2]

try calling them up. They will help you with your install.

[s14kouki]

wow i didnt know you had to drill the crossmember like that for those mounts.....

[pirate87]

all you have to do is enlarge the stock motor mount hole so you can fit an M12 bolt through it...or drill two in the same location.

[97s14pwar]

i got my motor in, it was a huge pain in the *** to get the motor mounts in. after i got them all tight, i went back to the transmission mount which is even a bigger mess. i ended up using a big crow bar to move the transmission where it should be, and the mount doesnt line up. I have to take about half an inch off each of the predrilled holes for it to work.

[pirate87]

my top hat mounts worked fine, how did you get the motor in the car? lower it down, or lift it up?

[Sil240]

I guess they changed them, because I never had to enlarge any holes or anything.

Everything lined up pretty well.Except the Trans X-member was off by like about 1/2 inch if so much.

[Darius]

I had to hack the $hit out of my tophat transmission mount too.

[Carl H]

tophat = boo.

[240SX GT-S]

Yeah I also thought it was strange that you have to drill the crossmember out. So I didn't. I bolted one bolt into each mount. Then welded the mounts to my crossmember The trans mount involved some muscle and strategic bolt placement to line up (which seemed a little dicey to me), but I didn't have to do any drilling, hacking, ect.

[s14_girl]

I also had to modify my transmission mount from TopHat. Just did that today actually and got it bolted up.

[Indolent]

i don't know you guys probably installed the mounts backwards or something because my mounts lined up perfectly, didn't have to hack jack **** everything bolted on fine, no issues here. no taping firewall, no drilling, no banging, no prie or crow bars. =] top hat ftw.

-Juan (bardabe)

[97s14pwar]

was this is an s13 or s14?

[s14_girl]

I sent pics to Top Hat and they said my engine mounts were installed correctly (not backwards), and that I would probably need to modify the trans mount for it to fit right-which I did.

[DJButton]

I have the JGY tophet copycat mounts and they seemed to go in fine, after my idiot self figured out how to install them! I mean it was a pain getting the bolts thru when we installed the engine but nothing uncommon, took a bit of wrestling withe transmission x-member but eventually got it in place.

[dsm]

If you email them a question about their mounts you will get a very rude and unprofessional reply, or at least thats what happened to me. And, their mounts are trash.

[240love]

is the drilling only for an s14 because in the tophat website on their instructions does say anything about drilling