I've heard both from various forums and from Chef that wheel hop will be eliminated with this mount. Nevertheless, the $200 price tag kept me away from this nice piece of metal and poly combo. So off I went to suffer for another month of babied launches and doing pulls from the beginning of 2nd gear. Well, today I decided I had enough. I haven't modded for almost 3+ months apart from maintenance (Bad plugs and Bad DV vavle) and I got a payout for my unused vacation time after quitting my job.

So off I go the VF Engineering to pick it up. As I left with the new toy the sales guy said happily "This mount is going to make a big difference." I quickly knodded and said hope so. For some reason I'm usually skeptical but I'll know soon enough. On the way home I immediatly open to box and inspect the contents and read the instructions while driving with my knee in between city and freeway driving. Luckily I get home safely and immdeiatly go to work. I jacked the car up and placed some jackstands and dove in. Both removal and installation of the mount was almost effortless with the exception of the Poly Insert. I got it in halfway with my arms and bit more with a rubber mallet. I decided to use the jack with the big washer to get the rest in. After that I torqued all the bolts to spec and went for a drive.

When driving around I noticed virtually nothing... which was good! Under normal driving I can't feel the DSG shift gears and only notice the audible DSG signature fart. I proceed to drive around normally a bit more and said to myself "For this I'm willing to pay $60 for." Being done, I decide to put it in "S" for the second round of testing. Unfortuantly, I really didn't notice anything different here. Shifting felt a bit more refined but it was hard to notice. Possibly it was a 10-15% improvment over stock. Here I said to myself "For this, I'm willing to pay $-10." Being at what I felt was a $50 product I was dissapointed. Dissapointed to such a level that I was hesistant to even try launchign my car with the new mount. Launching my car after getting stage II sucks period. It basically feels like going over a series of speedbumps at 25mph. BAMBAMBAMBAM!!!! It literally jolts and bounces the car so bad that I quit launching period. Nevertheless, the show must go one.

I come to a light and notice a "You're speed is: XX." booth thing about 75 yards away. Being only two digits I wondered if I go 100mph if it woudl show 00mph. So off I go. Stomp on the gas, Rev goes to 3000rpm and clutch engages aaannndddd... theres still wheel hop... but almost a 90% reduction of it! Now it feels like I'm going over 0 gauage wires at 25mph. Still at full throttle I let the tranny go through 2nd and 3rd peeling awaywith very minimal hop. Happy over the success, I was quickly dissapointed that I could only get the speed booth to read 70mph. Oh well, can't have everything. After a few more tests I finally felt it was worth the $200 spent.

Interestingly enough, I didn't fell any added annoyances with the mount. No added cabin noise or weird vibrations were felt. Also, there are 2 additional mounts from VF available where one is a tranny mount. I'm not too sure if its worth forking another $200 over, but with the amount of imrpovements this mount has given me, I'm very curious how the other two will feel.

 

A3Night, I'm glad that mount worked good for you. I'm hesitant on the full Engine and Tranny VF mounts because I didn't like the feedback I felt in David's GTI, but it was a WHOLE lot better than the MKIV Vdubs. I just want to have the smooth classy feel that my Audi should have, even if the exhaust note is a little more pronounced.

Cheers!