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Originally Posted by Bee
This job took me way longer than it should have, but I finished installing a new set of BMR motor mounts today. The reason it took so long is because the headers were blocking one of the bolts so I wasted a lot of time trying to find a short cut instead of just removing them. Where everything went completely downhill is when I was being stupid and unbolted the headers before disconnecting them from the rest of the exhaust system. The weight of the exhaust made it impossible to bolt the headers back on, and without the headers connected it was next to impossible to take apart the rest of the exhaust. I ended repositioning the headers enough to get one bolt in each one, and then with some heat, a large hammer, and a block of wood, got the exhaust from the cats back removed.
Of everything I have done to my car so far, I think this one is probably the most extreme. Granted, I need to get a couple hundred miles on them before they settle in, but that initial start-up and drive home felt like I was driving a completely different car. I could obviously always hear the car running, but now I can literally feel the rumble through the floorboards. It kind of reminds me of the old school big block muscle cars with no insulation under the carpet. Unfortunately, it was raining on and off and I got stuck behind way too many people driving like it was snowing. But I did get a short section of open road to wind out the gears a bit and everything felt very solid and incredibly responsive.
I’ll provide some additional feedback after they break in some more. Here are a couple pictures I took a long the way.
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I did something similar when changing the header gaskets, I did them one at a time though and on the passenger side I was too lazy to unbolt the butt mount just past the cat, so I forced it up with hand and tried to get at least 2 bolts in to hold it in place so I can get the rest in, except when I did, none of the other holes lined up well, that's when I found out that the weight of the headers and exhaust threw me for a loop and I cross threaded a few bolts into my heads, now I have to live with that mistake, lots of washers jammed under the cross threaded bolts (especially the front one) taunting me every time I open the hood