I will reply to Dave's comments once and only once in regards to the motor mounts. First and foremost, he is correct, I do not have a degree in engineering and or chemical engineering. what I do have is about 20 year experience tinkering with cars and a drag racing back ground. My last car was a 2003 Nissan 350z that was twin turbo and with a TH400 that I had a company design a mounting solution to my specifications, the car would run 10.0@138mph in the 1/4 mile.
That being said, I do not know how chemical and molecular functions and design work, what I do know is how Bull$hit works having been in the automotive business for myself at one point.... And if you are telling me that paying double for a product makes it superior, then you honestly are as ignorant as you make yourself sound. Allow me to reply as to WHY I personally feel these motor mounts are superior to Woodhouse at twice the price..
1) Woodhouse is a car stealership with a racing background, and if you expect me or anyone to believe they have the ability to manufacture their own motor mounts in house, you are mistaken. If you think they have done repeated harmonics and stress testing of the Viper engine to determine a secret proprietary "Viper formula" of Polyurethane used in their mounts, once again you are CLEARLY MISTAKEN.. This is how it works, they contract a company who's primary business is manufacturing polyurathane mounts to make their mounts for them, be it Polybushings, energy suspensions, Joe Blow's poly bushings, ect ect.. The end goal is profit for both companies, keep that in mind. They may have designed and manufactured a bushing and it failed in one of their cars or race cars, they may have went back and added a stronger Poly to the design, and that one or two failed...So they added internal interlocking bracing (same exact as polybushings) and those held up..That is the extent of their R&D. There is no magic to it that Woodhouse holds a patent to..
2)
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This is Polybushings design, look familiar? Same as woodhouse, except high grade Stainless steel for half the price. Read here :
http://polybushings.com/pages/2710.html
3) Failure rates of the Woodhouse exist, as this thread proves
http://www.viperalley.com/forum/viper-discussions-gen-i/176777-woodhouse-poly-motor-mounts.html it even seems that your friend and highly respected Viper tuner, Dan Lesser would agree on the Woodhouse failures
http://www.viperalley.com/forum/2784153-post14.html
4) Furthermore I simply do not like the general attitude of Woodhouse as shown in this old thread where they invited themselves and their superior, condescending attitude (similar to yours) on this guys thread and took a crap on Polybushings unprovoked and used it as a soap box to grand stand and promote their bushings. Here :
http://forums.viperclub.org/threads/602263-Viper-Polyurethane-Engine-Mounts-and-Transmission-Mount and here:
http://forums.viperclub.org/threads...ission-Mount?p=2392826&viewfull=1#post2392826
5) Last but not least I can not find any threads with a high failure rate of the Polybushings mounts..
So in review, Woodhouse does not manufacture anything on their own, Polybushings are superior in my eyes due to design being superior or equal to, and price being 1/2 that of the ones sold by a car stealership. I will never break these mounts or Woodhouse mounts for that matter and in fact 99% of Viper owners probably will never break either set of mounts, therefore
why would someone pay double for the same exact product???
PS, the motor mounts are NOT shiny but they do offer them in chrome I hear..
That being said, Im done replying to you so please do not waste your time.
I have been putting off the tranny mount cause my neck and shoulder is killing me now..lol..
