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Originally Posted by Mark IV
There are aftermarket mount with Polyurethane instead of rubber, but what JBo said was right, the convert mounts are different as Ford needed to control NVH more on a ragtop. Even on the early (60s) Mustang converts, the engine mounts were different.
Understand that Brian did things based upon input from Ford and with the "flexi-flyer" AC frame, you don't want to tie the engine down too much as the loads will be fed into parts that were not intended to take such stresses.........
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That's correct. The PU mounts don't work. You can see the difference here:
with PU nearly no space to the frame:
with the normal rubber mounts much better:
Here both together not mounted:
