Energy suspension engine mount problem

[taz8520]

I fitted some ES mounts today only the front engine mount, upon driving home when idling my car shakes, RPM sits a about 6-700 which is about normal for my lude, when take it up to 1k the shaking goes, this problem only occurred after fitting the ES mount, does this normally happen?

[A1ex]

That's normal, I remember seeing LLL's lude with full poly engine mounts and the whole thing vibrated a lot on idle. The rubber absorbs the vibrations much better than polyurethane but as it has more give restricts the throttle response through engine movement

[106pete]

Yeah it is pretty normal bud, I kinda like it.

Ps I will measure the mani soon

[taz8520]

Oh no I don't like it , my engine mount was dead though the rubber was split so I def needed to fit the ES.

Ok pete thanks, mine measured about 660cm from under the car, flange to bottom corner of downpipe.

[LewisH]

Im wanting to polybush my whole car in the future. Im sure it will take me a good few days to do it all!

[FrontBackSide2Side]

i had a solid engine mount on my 106 and hated it, just felt like i was punishing the car a lot more.

[taz8520]

Wish I had known about this before fitting , might have to look in to new engine mounts then to resolve it

[mercutio]

was it the inserts you fitted?

[taz8520]

Yep only the front one, doing the rear mount next weekend

[Vtecmec]

There's a mount reset procedure in the 4th gen manual I'd imagine its the same for the 5th, basically you slacken all four mounts, idle the car for a bit to let it settle, then tighten them back up again. You're probably best trying that.