Wheel Hop solution...maybe (look)

[greenmachine97]

Well i was hardcore into the Nissan Z-Car and Silvia line-up along with the Toyota AE86, long before my DSM came into my life and i was looking back at some of my own links i had saved and came across this.

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It is an engine torque damper/dampener. Pretty much it is a little shock that reduces the amount of engine torqing(sp) and/or movement of the motor itself inside of the engine bay. And from what i have learned, wheel hop is caused by the engine shaking in its mounts. And it would make sense that this damper would help solve that problem. Has anyoen else ever heard of this or thought of this? and do any of you "super-mechanic techical gurus" have a reason why or why not this would work?

 

[1badtsi]

its called poly-urithane motor mounts

 

[greenmachine97]

Yeah, i know that! And i am installing them next weekend. But i figured that more help is better. And i dont want to get a full set of solid prothane mounts because i dont want to deal with the excessive vibration it produces. I have hear of people with the mounts and a b&m lsd and they still get wheel hop. So we FWD's can take all the help we can get. has anyone else ever heard about this or considered it?

 

[FourG63 97GST]

does it use 2 of those dampeners or 1?

 

[TimG]

So you'll get wheel spin instead of hop. Won't help out too much but will keep your tranny alive longer. No extra stress from the grip, go, grip, go when you hop.

 

[98RedGs]

Originally posted by FourG63 97GST
does it use 2 of those dampeners or 1?

It would make sense personally if they used 2...
One on each side of the engine bay or either one attached to the firewall but I honestly have no clue. Hopefully the thread starter will come back and give us some more details on this.

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[DSMeclipse4G63]

I would think that polyurethane mounts and a damper would be almost as bad as using solid metal mounts like the drag queens use. If so your car will shake like crazy. Good luck with that....the urethane mounts should suffice.
Andrew

 

[greenmachine97]

well, from what i have seen, they only used 1 damper. but i have only seen it on RWD cars, i havent seen a setup on a FWD engine layout. But i really dont have any more info on it, i was wondering if any of you have ever seen this.

Here is what is gives as a description on ones of the websites i was looking at:

Engine torque damper The engine is swayed largely when accelerating and decelerating with such as power / increase of torque, installing the high grip tire by the counter torque from the road surface. The engine torque damper with just the engine mount controls the shaking of the engine which it cannot absorb effectively, prevents the trouble of the mission and the engine due to shift mistake. In addition, it absorbs the vibration of the engine with individual internal constitution. You hold down stress to the engine and the body to minimum.

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Made from our solid aluminum manufacturing technology, the engine torque dampener is used for reducing engine vibration which will increase horsepower/torque to the flywheel. It also helps the factory engine mounts and transmission mounts by supporting the vibration through another point of contact

http://www.raretrick.com/index1.asp?cat=1441&Action=cat&Page=1

here is a link to pics and maybe some more info.