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1G ATI vs Fluid dampener

ATI vs Fluid dampener in an auto.

  • ATI

    Votes: 1 25.0%
  • Fluid dampener

    Votes: 3 75.0%

  • Total voters
    4

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I use the Ati damper with my 2.4. The only downsides I can think of are, I had to get my the timing hub honed in-order to get it on and off the crank. 2nd, in order to do timing belt changes. I have to take the center cross member off to lower the motor enough to get the damper ring off. 3rd, the timing cover will need trimmed due to it being bigger than stock. And last, the alternator belt and a/c belt will need to be swapped to longer belts to compensate for the size difference.
 
I use the Ati damper with my 2.4. The only downsides I can think of are, I had to get my the timing hub honed in-order to get it on and off the crank. 2nd, in order to do timing belt changes. I have to take the center cross member off to lower the motor enough to get the damper ring off. 3rd, the timing cover will need trimmed due to it being bigger than stock. And last, the alternator belt and a/c belt will need to be swapped to longer belts to compensate for the size difference.
If you had the hub honed to a slip fit, you ruined the damper. it's supposed to be a press fit and a good one too. That's what transmits almost 1000Ft*lbs from your crank to the damper.

OP instead of relying on thoughts from people who really don't know, read the white paper by bhj and make your own desicision. http://harmonicdampers.com/downloads/pdf/tech/BHJDynamics_Damper_Info.pdf

I ran fluids for a long time because I figured the wide range damping was better than possibly being untuned to a narrow range tuned elastomeric damper. I also cracked a crank every season, had a flywheel come loose, broke a timing gear, had them come loose, ect.. Don't know if that was fluidampers fault or not. I put an ATI on last fall, we will see how that goes in time.
 
If you had the hub honed to a slip fit, you ruined the damper. it's supposed to be a press fit and a good one too. That's what transmits almost 1000Ft*lbs from your crank to the damper.


What are talking about ruined? The instructions clearly say to hone the hub to fit. They'll even do it for for a fee of $40. Per their instructions.

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What was your point by posting this?
To provide information on why you may chose one brand over the other. From the video you can see that the ATI style is rebuildable and tunable if you need that. The Fluidamper is not. Maybe that is important to you, maybe it is not. Good luck.
 
What are talking about ruined? The instructions clearly say to hone the hub to fit. They'll even do it for for a fee of $40. Per their instructions.

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Again, it is supposed to be a press fit, needing a damper installer to press it on. If you honed it beyond that, and it's a slip fit, it's ruined.
 
Again, it is supposed to be a press fit, needing a damper installer to press it on. If you honed it beyond that, and it's a slip fit, it's ruined.
Kind of hard to fix stupid. We cannot help he is to lazy to use the part correctly.
 
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