hockey puck body mounts

[bishop gp]

I personally like to play devils advocate just so something can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. No offense meant to anybody just trying to get it disproved so nobody tries it ive got kind of a mythbusters mentality about it even thought of a way it could work but considering the amount of modification it would take it wouldnt be a viable alternative lol it would involve putting a steel sleeve around it to decrease sidewall deflection and by that point its a rubber cored solid body mount:/

 

[pencero]

You guys are just way over thinking this whole thing. The type of person who would perform this type of so-called temporary 'repair' would obviously not do the proper shop work to install it correctly and build a sleeve around it. For a Canadian kid in high school the hockey pock solution could be where it's at for a year or two to get by. It's stupid for anyone that has more than a few hundred dollars savings in the bank and the skills to do it the right way in the first place... And obviously anyone who would even consider trying this so called 'repair' with a powerful engine under the hood is just asking to die. I doubt any of the stock engines could generate enough power to destroy a hockey puck 'body mount', except maybe for the select few that came with 350's stock. That test in the pictures is unreasonable. Don't you think a lot more of the cars people put on cheap 'blocks and spacers' kits would be falling apart if that test made sense. Maybe a bigger car like a Cadillac would smash the hockey pucks because it has at least an additional 1,100 lbs. weight.

 

[bishop gp]

Id assume it could be done with some 3 inch fence post cut into sections then trimming the puck to fit into the post thus increasing the lateral strength of the puck and also giving the ability to be torqued down to spec lol

 

[bishop gp]

Id think it could be done with a chop saw and a torch by heating the pipe you could basically cut it \ melt it to size after the pipe has been cut to the correct height . just for arguements sake.

 

[pencero]

Man I am absolutely flabbergasted at how innefective mechanically inclined people are at cutting corners. Stick to doing things the book way. You guys are awesome though, but seriously why cut corners if it is going either a. cost the same in supplies or b. take the same amount of time... Clearly on a rusty v6 cutlass or regal it would be like a 15 minute thing, drill out the body mount area that rusted out and just jam the damn things in there. Or don't and just do it the right way the first time.

 

[bishop gp]

I think weve killed this then lol. I felt the need to play devils advocate to speed things along on this one so it could die quickly. I get bored runnin somethin the size of a football field at work:/

 

[pencero]

I mean damn I would hate to see a single person in this thread try to handle the logistics of robbing a bank. They would invest hundreds of dollars on their costume and way over complicate the planning stage. hahaha

 

[bishop gp]

If your gonna rob the bank might as well rob the costume store too lol

 

[pontiacgp]

I personally like to play devils advocate just so something can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. No offense meant to anybody just trying to get it disproved so nobody tries it ive got kind of a mythbusters mentality about it even thought of a way it could work but considering the amount of modification it would take it wouldnt be a viable alternative lol it would involve putting a steel sleeve around it to decrease sidewall deflection and by that point its a rubber cored solid body mount:/

The hockey pucks we used on our last G body circle track car we built never broke and has lasted 7 years of slamming other cars and bouncing off the walls and it'll be out there this year with the same hockey pucks. None of the cars in that series had any issues with breaking hockey pucks and we don't torque them to specs, we tighten them with 1/2" bolts with an impact that's over 120 ft lbs of torque

 

[bishop gp]

Well nobody has died from it then myth plausible?