1981 928 engine mounts
07-28-2023, 10:45 PM
#1
Track Day
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1981 928 engine mounts
Someone please tell me that there is an alternative engine mount for the early models. And if so some guidance on where to get them. I have an 81 and I'm about to do the oil pan gasket and some work with cross member removed, I will be inspecting the mounts during this time and would like to be prepared to replace them if necessary.
07-29-2023, 12:30 AM
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Someone please tell me that there is an alternative engine mount for the early models. And if so some guidance on where to get them. I have an 81 and I'm about to do the oil pan gasket and some work with cross member removed, I will be inspecting the mounts during this time and would like to be prepared to replace them if necessary.
07-29-2023, 01:02 AM
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07-30-2023, 12:03 AM
#4
Former Vendor
Someone please tell me that there is an alternative engine mount for the early models. And if so some guidance on where to get them. I have an 81 and I'm about to do the oil pan gasket and some work with cross member removed, I will be inspecting the mounts during this time and would like to be prepared to replace them if necessary.
07-30-2023, 02:58 PM
#6
Former Vendor
Wasn't Roger having these rebuilt, at one time?
07-30-2023, 04:06 PM
#7
Former Vendor
It's what Porsche has been doing/what they will continue to do.
Anything that gets low in Porsche's inventory or needs to be reproduced has the price changed to reflect what it takes to reproduce in lower than original volumes...30 years later.
Remember that Porsche doesn't even know or even think about ideas/products which are contrary to their original designs:
Try envisioning Porsche/our company approving Volvo engine mounts in a late 928, which raise the biggest/heaviest part in the entire car 3/4 of an inch, completely upsetting the center of gravity of the car.
Or approving a different belt tensioning device which uses a tiny "Audi" tensioner (made for use on an Audi with a very short timing belt), which allows the 928 belt to flop around like a fish out of water and allows cam timing to vary 3-4 degrees. (Does no one realize how large a 968 belt tensioner is, just to control the belt on that single head, dual camshaft, short belt, engine? Take the covers off of a 968 and feel/measure how tight a 968 belt is, just to control 1/2 of a 928 engine!)
Absurd!
Absolutely, completely absurd ideas!
Completely contrary to what makes a 928 such a great car!
Porsche is trying to make pieces to maintain these cars, properly. (Otherwise every part
would become NLA, when Porsche runs out.)
Our company is making pieces to improve these cars. One example: We now have suspension pieces which will dramatically increase 928 cornering ability, by a huge factor...easily twice what an old 928 will do. And these pieces dramatically lower the NVH of an original, stock 928, even on one built with stock (soft) Boges.
.....And then there are people trying to sell pieces that ruin these cars! (Crank those Koni's up...so that a 928 "feels" like what people think a race car "feels" like.)
The above is exactly why we have doubled/trippled/quadrupled our Porsche parts inventory, in the past two years and why we work so hard to develop new pieces.
Ignition coils suddenly difficult to find/buy? No sweat for us...we've got a large box of them.
Motor mounts expensive/going to be hard to find? No sweat for us...we've got a big box full of them. (These are only a couple small examples....we've done this throughout our entire inventory.)
We are just trying to make sure that we have the pieces required to repair and build our internal client's vehicles, properly.
Anything that gets low in Porsche's inventory or needs to be reproduced has the price changed to reflect what it takes to reproduce in lower than original volumes...30 years later.
Remember that Porsche doesn't even know or even think about ideas/products which are contrary to their original designs:
Try envisioning Porsche/our company approving Volvo engine mounts in a late 928, which raise the biggest/heaviest part in the entire car 3/4 of an inch, completely upsetting the center of gravity of the car.
Or approving a different belt tensioning device which uses a tiny "Audi" tensioner (made for use on an Audi with a very short timing belt), which allows the 928 belt to flop around like a fish out of water and allows cam timing to vary 3-4 degrees. (Does no one realize how large a 968 belt tensioner is, just to control the belt on that single head, dual camshaft, short belt, engine? Take the covers off of a 968 and feel/measure how tight a 968 belt is, just to control 1/2 of a 928 engine!)
Absurd!
Absolutely, completely absurd ideas!
Completely contrary to what makes a 928 such a great car!
Porsche is trying to make pieces to maintain these cars, properly. (Otherwise every part
would become NLA, when Porsche runs out.)
Our company is making pieces to improve these cars. One example: We now have suspension pieces which will dramatically increase 928 cornering ability, by a huge factor...easily twice what an old 928 will do. And these pieces dramatically lower the NVH of an original, stock 928, even on one built with stock (soft) Boges.
.....And then there are people trying to sell pieces that ruin these cars! (Crank those Koni's up...so that a 928 "feels" like what people think a race car "feels" like.)
The above is exactly why we have doubled/trippled/quadrupled our Porsche parts inventory, in the past two years and why we work so hard to develop new pieces.
Ignition coils suddenly difficult to find/buy? No sweat for us...we've got a large box of them.
Motor mounts expensive/going to be hard to find? No sweat for us...we've got a big box full of them. (These are only a couple small examples....we've done this throughout our entire inventory.)
We are just trying to make sure that we have the pieces required to repair and build our internal client's vehicles, properly.
Last edited by GregBBRD; 07-30-2023 at 04:31 PM.
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07-30-2023, 07:59 PM
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...even if something different IS better and meets and exceeds all prior and CURRENT safety requirements, and CAN beyond all doubt be proven by all the right people...quite easily..
It's would be a €100k exercise to even put together a test document to describe how to do it...before DOING it.
And you thought the OE part would be expensive...
It's not in our best interests to ask for better...if it lasts 30yrs, it's more than good enough left alone.
It's would be a €100k exercise to even put together a test document to describe how to do it...before DOING it.
And you thought the OE part would be expensive...
It's not in our best interests to ask for better...if it lasts 30yrs, it's more than good enough left alone.