Ok so last year I swapped a 95 gsr into my 94 civic coupe, the left and right front corners of the valve cover hit the hood under hard shifts leaving dimples in the hood. (With stock mounts)

This year it has full synapse turbo kit and hasport mounts, car is also ready for paint and I have a new hood. I don't want the same thing to happen to the new hood, should I get hood spacers or should the hasport mounts take care of the problem?

 

The hasport mounts do drop the motor a lil and will no longer rub the hood...

I got the pwjdm hood spacers b/c my b16b and hood were making way too much love...wish I had the coin to drop on some mounts though

 

Can some one confirm this? Would hate to grab a gear and have some new dimples in the new hood lol

 

Can someone confirm this? Yes. Hasport. Make a call.

 

Wow. Will do on lunch now. Thanks for being so helpful and friendly.

 

^Your not getting butthurt by what Marc said are you? That would be silly, its was a straight forward awnser yo

 

Nope not at all thanks tho. I will call hasport on lunch to make sure.

 

Honestly if you want to be secure just get some hood risers. 30$ on PWJDM. Hasport has more than enough clearance but if you really are worried just get Hood risers. Not that big of a deal.

 

it shouldn't hit to begin with. do you have torque mounts in the car?

 

Curious why torque mounts are relavant?

I have wondered but have never investigated this....it's almost 50/50 i guess. gsr/itr/ctr swaps in eg/dc chassis using stock mounts...some say the VC clears the hood just fine, others (including myself) say stock mounts put the valve cover into the hood.

Im using oem mounts including torque mounts and rubbed the valve cover and hood raw. Closed the hood a lil hard once and put a nice dent in it too.

 

Most swaps on stock mounts with leave about 1/2 and inch deep of dimples. Some times even more. Hasport mounts or Hood risers are to prevent this.

 

Thank you everyone, just to confirm I called hasport on my lunch and the rep that answers the phone said that the mounts Do Not drop the motor at all they are a stiffer mount and "should" not let the motor shake to leave the dimples, the rep stated he has had Eg gsr and b20 lsv swaps with the mounts and have not had this problem.

To the above person no I am not running torque mounts

Also I may just run some stupid spacers for I little bit bc I think it would suck to put on a brand new hood with new paint then end up with dimples in my hood, when I get sick of them ill pull them out and hope for the best lol

 

Like i said, 30$ for hood risers @ PWJDM to prevent you from this problem. But "To each his own"

 

If you pay $30 for spacers you should be shot. Much cheaper alternatives out there.

 

Ehh 30$ really is that much tbh. but if there is cheaper alt then pick them up.

 

Couldn't washers of some sort be used? or a "polyurethane bushing" In place,to give it a slight lift as an alternative route? I could have sworn i seen a write up some place on this. I could be wrong but if you want billet hood spacers I guess these might be a cheaper alternative as well from the password jdm hood risers. there is also a six dollar set someplace I had saw.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GOLD-1-BILLE...a1d87d&vxp=mtr

 

^^^Yes. To both. Home Depot is a popular source.

 

I don't know why anyone would space the hood up. We always just spaced the engine and transmission down a little.

Also, you really should be running torque mounts.