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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ReplicaR" data-source="post: 944508" data-attributes="member: 9209">Installed the mounts this morning. When I opened the box, first thing I saw was this<img src="http://i39.tinypic.com/1zmz41y.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Finest components available you say? We'll see I thought to my self.<img src="http://i43.tinypic.com/2q8vq50.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The motor mounts themselves. Pretty nice quality. Nuts are all nylon locked, which leaves out the possibility of it getting loose and splitting apart. The metal is coated, the urethane fills the entire mount, rather than just the middle, and this is the whole reason why I decided to go this route in the first place. More on this in the following the pictures.Here is what stock mounts look like compared to Energy Suspension<img src="http://i43.tinypic.com/5akgw9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Note something very different. The stock mounts or stock style replacements are not filled all the way. They are just filled in the middle, and I guess manufacturers just expect them to stay there. For mustangs that are performance driven, or have no more soft bushings in the back, like my torque arm mustang, it's especially important. All the motion gets transferred through drive line, which puts a lot of load on the mounts. Stock style mounts can't handle it and break away from their central location. They are not completely separated, so you don't get that motor crashing down sound, but motor still moves around quite a bit, which does result in awful drivability. It's even more worse when the pinion angle changes on a torque arm car, because then you get a nasty vibration which feeds right into the cabin, making the car down right unpleasant to drive.<img src="http://i41.tinypic.com/os7fhj.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />If you look carefully, so you can see that stock mount already sagged, which means that it moves freely with in the confine of the stock mount. With Energy Suspension mount being completely filled, this failure becomes an impossibility. I was tired of changing mounts more often than I change oil. I don't care that Autozone replacements are free, I just don't have an hour and a half to spend every month, and motor mounts should not be a part of monthly maintenance. I'll get some driving impressions, and post soon. So far I've only taken the car around the block, and they feel great, much better than blown mounts I've replaced.</blockquote>