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Old 18-10-2005, 10:59 PM
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Default 06 sti has plastic engine mounts?

http://www.iwsti.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34215

Crikey. It's all gone ecutek.
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Apparently motor magazine broke an engine mount in their 06 sti when they tested it aswell.

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er so more torque and weaker mounts ?
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weight reduction?...lol
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That really sucks.
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Group N engine mounts are only 90 bucks each...but still thats no excuse for POOR engineering to start with!!
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Oh deary deary me!
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Group N engine mounts are only 90 bucks each...but still thats no excuse for POOR engineering to start with!!
$90 each per mount plus the labour involved of swapping them != a cheap exercise for something that should never have even been considered imho
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Old 19-10-2005, 08:27 AM
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I thought you'd already been ordering mods for your sti, womble?
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