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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
That’s good that it is sorted out for you. Maybe the problem is just getting things to sit perfectly. As I stated before, I have no rubbing. The transmission mount was entirely removed and nothing was worse or better because of it. Perhaps this would fix other people’s issues, but if anything was rubbing for me then it would rub all the time, yet my vibrations disappeared at 1400rpms.
I’m not entirely sure what you hammered or what you are referring to when you say a piece of the transmission sticks through the mount. The transmission mount bolts to the transmission with four bolts. The two plates of the mount are joined by soft rubber on either side, and a bolt goes in the center to reduce bounce. They say to move the trans to the side, so maybe you mean that nut going through the hole of the mounting plate hits or something. It is hard to understand. I enlarged the hole, so I could move it to the side more, but again, this seems unlikely to be an issue for me because the problem disappears with rpms.
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Did you not cut and hammer on the transmission mount bracket? If not then that’s your problem. Anyone using the stock trans needed to hammer that bracket in quite a bit for clearance. I feel like I went further than most on my first go at it. But I recently pulled everything out and pushed that trans mount bracket in further. It’s hard to see, but the trans has a small section that extends into the area that was hammered. I believe that even if there is an 1/8” clearance that we may still get some occasional vibrations from it. The stock Impreza mounts aren’t very good. I don’t understand why kpower went this route. I had Perrin mounts with my fa20, they nearly worked for this swap but I didn’t feel like modifying them, so I sold them.