Transmission mounts.

I purchased a HD 3 piece trans mount kit from CB and noticed that the nose cone mount is a lot smaller than the one on the car. All the bolts line up, but the new one is just a square rubber sandwich and the old one is much larger with some material extending into the oval opening in the frame. .........Hmmm that sounds funny.......anyway, the old mount still looks good and I don't know if I want to use the old more sturdy looking mount or the new smaller new one. Advice please.

Chuck,
I ran into the same questions you have about the front trans mount.
Initially I used Urethane mounts. Those were too solid for my taste. Too much feedback in vibration and noise.
I replaced those with OEM mounts from CIP1. The mounts were OEM but the front mount was as you described. I used the OLD one that I had. It was still in good shape, and looks beefier than the New one I bought.
I added a Super Trans Mount from www.mooreparts.com. It bolts to the transmission just forward of the drain plug. It has pads that butt against the frame horns. So far this has worked the best. No noticeable added noise or vibration and the tranny is constrained.


Greg B

I haven't run the Hoopty with the mount I made yet, but it's an addition that the front four bolts on the tranny pass through. We welded it directly to the frame horns, below and between them.
Right after I posted that picture, someone else was asking about that process, and there was an off-the-shelf part that did the same thing.
My nose cone will be using the stock urethane thingie Greg was talking about, but it won't jump or hop on me and it'll always line up in the same spot. That should mean I'll never have to replace anything forward of that again, if I got it right.
I also braced the crap out of my frame horns, but that was a chassis modification to the roll assembly and probably doesn't help much.

Cory,

You may have already posted on the topic, but what sort of transaxle are you going to use? Built four, Porsche five, whatever?

Just a stock Bug swinger. Nothing fancy except that a fella named Erco is making me some short axles I can abuse, and I'm going to play with the spider-gears to close in some of the teeth.
Same split case everyone else has, though. Nothing high-tech.

To correctly answer the question, VW four. 3:88 final. Close-ratio first, second and third. Actual ratios TBD, but I'll post.