[V8] Well that's your problem right there..

[Ron Wainwright]

More than likely your motor mounts are bad if there's a 1/2 inch gap from the top of the mount bracket to the bottom of the mount rod base.
I suggest the 034 mounts since new OE mounts are pretty pricey. I'm using them on my 5sp and on my 20vt. 
didn't really feel any difference on my V8 since my suspension is pretty teeth chattering anyway.... but on my 20vt it took allot of the slop out of things. 
 I wish they made the tranny mounts for the V8. They make ones for the 5cy cars, 
but they wont work. 

 And what do you mean the car bucks going into gear?

 Ron
91 V8 5sp mit 4.2 aka Black Betty (hibernating)

--- On Mon, 3/1/10, 7013885254 <chance9121 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: 7013885254 <chance9121 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [V8] Well that's your problem right there..
> To: v8 at audifans.com
> Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 6:35 PM
> So,  today it is GORGEOUS out,
> so I decided to get busy on the audi and miata today.
> 
> So on the plate was the front motor mount on the V8...
> Which was sheared in two, of course.  The replacement
> seems far too spongy to do any good, as well.  Now the
> curious part is that there was a 1/2in gap between the two
> pieces of the old mount.
> This new mount still had to cover this gap, and appears to
> have done so by stretching a large bit.  I take it this
> is not normal... Nor do I see how this can really do much
> good for 'mounting' the engine.
> 
> Any conjectures here?  Both hydraulic mounts out
> maybe?  The car still bucks a bit going into gear.. So
> likely the front subby mounts are bad.... Again. 
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