It has been a while since I have updated this thread. The year started off looking like this with my car.
At that time my car was running the stock VVT engine with the Alec Moody 3d printed intake and a racing beat header.
Then sometime in May I graduated from Law School and started studying for the bar exam. The bar exam was postponed multiple times but ultimately was administered and I passed on my first try. Now that schooling is over I have been able to get back into wrenching on my car the last few weeks with all the parts I've been collecting the past few years.
First up on my list of upgrades were Bryan's old V8Roadster motor mounts. He had them in his car for a year or two but the NVH drove him a bit crazy. I took a chance on them since I thought I knew what the problem was. I still think I know what the problem was.
Below is what the V8Roadster sleeve as included in their kit looks like. It is marginally smaller than the distance between the face of the bushings when the bushings are installed. This would cause the clevis, when tightened, to use the face of the bushing as the mount rather than locating on the sleeve. This was turning the bushing into the mounting surface instead of the medium to quell NVH.
I contacted Sean from SadFab to have a custom made sleeve made. He has helped me out in the past with 3d printed parts and custom machined parts. Needless to say, this small difference in sleeve diameter seems to have made a difference when the sleeve was assembled. Below is the side by side of the included sleeve on the left and Sean's sleeve on the right.
This is what the motor mount looks like when the stock sleeve is pressed into the bushings.
Here is a photo of Sean's new sleeve in the v8roadster clevis. It is a pretty precise and tight fit.
Below is what the mount looks like with Sean's sleeves installed.
And here is a quick video I made showing that the motor mounts can now rotate freely without clamping on the bushings themselves.