Need Help. Engine Torque Damper

[The05BlueRedlineGuy]

OK so i installed my Ingals Engine Torque Damper this weekend and it sucks. for some reason my engine sounds funny now and when the car is cold and i gas it it makes a clunk sound, it feels less responsive and i still have wheel hop. everything is torqued to specs and i set my damper at 12.5mm. Does anyone have this problem or know what it might be. or does anyone want to buy it! lol

[socalsilverRL]

I know what your problem is...


you should have bought solid motor mounts.

Engine dampers break so easily and do nothin to stop wheel hop.

your clunking noise is the damper bottoming out, or the bracket hitting something. I know a couple of CA people that have completely broken the Ingals mount, and damper.

[The05BlueRedlineGuy]

well hell i wish i would have known that before i spent the $159 on it. well why doesn't it serve its purpose it seems like a pretty ingenius design. and the stifness is set hard enough it shouldn't have any room inside there to gain momentum to bottom out. its not like a motor flexes that much right?

[Pwun603]

I was Planning on buying one next month. A lot of people on here seem to be having a good experience with the TDs.

[socalsilverRL]

i have personally sat there and watched a TD'd redline engine, and a SMM redline engine on a dyno...

the TD'd engine moved JUST as much as stock, once the engine hit redline. It moved ~6" front to back.

the SMM'd motor (made by bw**dy) the motor did not budge, at all. all TQ was transfered to the wheels. and it showed.

[Rear-Vue]

i am pretty close to buying a ingalls myself from a guy on shortbuss i heard no one had an issues and it was better then woody's but do the motor an the tranny mount (solid one) add that much vibration??

[AlphaJaguar5]

I've had pretty much every version of the Torque Forward Damper and all have stopped my engine from moving at all when torqued down to the tightest setting. The version before the current one was the best IMO but this version looks alot better so I stuck with the current one.

[Cynic]

Originally Posted by socalsilverRL

i have personally sat there and watched a TD'd redline engine, and a SMM redline engine on a dyno...

the TD'd engine moved JUST as much as stock, once the engine hit redline. It moved ~6" front to back.

the SMM'd motor (made by bw**dy) the motor did not budge, at all. all TQ was transfered to the wheels. and it showed.

Man what brand of TD were you using? when I installed mine it got rid of just about all the wheel hop (save for EXTREMELY hard acceleration)

[Dainslaif]

I'm using one of Cynic's as well, it does make a significant difference. I only hop if it's wet or frosty out.

[DBryden]

I dunno, I have the Ingalls on mine and it got rid of absolutely ALL wheel hop. I've seen sooooooooooooo many people install them wrong and it doesn't help at all.

Did you make sure to adjust the length while installing it?
-A good way to know is when you were bolting the dampener to the brackets, did the bolts slip in ABSOLUTELY STRAIGHT, and not at ANY angles before you tightened them?

Are you sure you measured the 12.5 from the right places?
-Double check, a lot of people don't get it right the first try...it's hard when one millimeter makes a big difference...

The engine may still move, but I've gotten wheel hop ONCE since I put it on a year ago, and that was because I accidentally launched at like 2700...

It did make a noise that I don't even notice now, souned like a scraping kind of, but it wasn't? And it does clunk when it's cold, that goes away after a few minutes of driving.