Thread: Balance Shaft Chain Cutting

^-- agreed

Originally Posted by Aztec Red 03 Spec V

If you like your car not rattling apart and carrying on conversation while driving, don't do it. You really think everything from the sunglasses holder to the airbags rattling is worth 5hp go for it, it definitely can't be good for it. What's 5hp max worth to you?

I have no idea what you are talking about..I cant even tell that it has been cut. If anything i feel liek the car is actually smoother. While driving the revs climb faster, and it just feels like there is nothing holding the motor back now

^^ agreed my car runs better without chain! SLIGHT vibrations in steering wheel which I don't even notice anymore!!

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I would like to meet up with someone else in my area to see what there's is like. Mine is ridiculous, and I've driven many cars that rattled and they were nothing like this. It wasn't bad until I put the solid mounts in, but I don't feel like replacing motor mounts every 2-3 months. Have the rest of you had a problem with it tearing through mounts since the BS chain removal?

^-- negative, and i've had em out since 2004

Yea dude ur prob is not the bsr


Or u really fucked something up in process

Stop trying to scare ppl Away from This mod. Its awesome and I loved the diffrence I felt after cutting chain!! So worth it

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Well the car feels smoother now that she chain is gone. I'm not going to lie about that. But after the motor mounts kept on tearing and the flex pipe ripped I put in the solid mounts. Then came all the rattles. Maybe my motor is just horribly balanced? Like I said I would like to meet up with someone else with their BS chain cut and solid mounts to see how the rattles are on their car.

so, is it true tho, that if i do this mod, my motor mounts will go to hell soon and often?

I had the BSR for 20k with stock mounts and mmi's with no issues at all. When I went to solids finally, my stock mounts looked just fine.

same here except I've had it done for about 70k miles...my mounts were perfectly fine when I went solid as well.

Originally Posted by MisterNuts

I had the BSR for 20k with stock mounts and mmi's with no issues at all. When I went to solids finally, my stock mounts looked just fine.

You can rip mounts a number of ways. Either the rubber could have been weathered, or if you're missing some exhaust hanger bushings, that'll also increase movement slightly.

the only question i have is how many links do you take out? and what happens if you take out too much or not enough links?

Originally Posted by SE-R Kid

the only question i have is how many links do you take out? and what happens if you take out too much or not enough links?

Links of what? You remove the entire chain, no need to worry about "links".

taking out the entire chain? ok and then theres another chain for all the timing. thought it was the same one.

Originally Posted by SE-R Kid

taking out the entire chain? ok and then theres another chain for all the timing. thought it was the same one.

The timing chain and the balance shaft assembly chain are two entirely separate chains, lol.

lol srry new to the whole timing chain and all that.

I wanna do this who is down! lol

I'll provide Beer and Food haha

i need to do this soon.

what are the yellow and red link things on the chain? arent thoese the ones that hook it togetehr so couldnt you find them disconnect them and pull out the chain?

I have motor mounts insert and BSR. Between 2000rpm to 4000rpm mine rattles as hell. Even more since I have aftermarket cams. In normal cruising, around 2500rpm, it's fine