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You may be asking yourself "Who cares about motor mounts?" You would probably also be surprised how important they are and how Hasport Mounts are superior. Hasport Motor Mounts replace your stock motor mounts with a billet aluminum housing and polyurethane bushings which provides many benefits.

Stock Honda engine mounts work well on a stock car in new condition. They have soft rubber bushings with steel housings that keep your engine in place and obsorb engine vibrations. However, after time the rubber bushings deteriorate and you will find yourself replacing them atleast every 5-6 years. Why not replace your worn out factory engine mounts with a better alternative?

Hasport engine mounts are made from one piece billet aluminum housings to allow many different engine mount configurations. This allows not only an upgraded bushing over stock Honda mounts, but also unique engine mounts that allow Honda enthusiasts to swap motors!

All Hasport Billet Mount Kits are made by CAD/ CAM processes for exact fitment with either stock engines, or Honda and Acura's with motor swaps. Hasport has engineered many different engine swap mount configurations that allow many different motors to be swapped into other Honda chassis effortlessly!

Another advantage over stock motor mounts is Hasport's unique polyurethane bushings. All Hasport Mounts are available in 62A, 70A, and 88A urethane hardness. Choose 62A urethane for a street vehicle which will transfer very little engine vibrations to the chassis for a very comfortable drive. Choose 70A for an occasionally track driven car, or 88A for an all out race car. All bushings are warrantied by Hasport!

Get rid of your stock motor mounts and install a set of Hasport Mounts at discounted prices from HA Motorsports!

Mustang Riders to Sit on Soy-based Foam

The Ford Motor Co. and Lear Corp. will mark an automotive milestone when the production of soy-based foam for seats begins in the 2008 Mustang. Ford may do the same with other models as well, eventually saving thousands of barrels of oil in the manufacturing process, the automaker said last Thursday.

America's adored pony car will not only be flaunting bright Ford headlights - it will be sporting the industry's first soy-based flexible foam in the seat backs and seat cushions starting in August at the Auto Alliance International factory in Flat Rock, Michigan.

"Our technical team had to overcome several significant hurdles to bring this environmentally responsible technology to production," said Gerhard Schmidt, the vice president of Research & Advanced Engineering at Ford. "We are pleased that our diligent efforts in developing this technology have resulted in the production of soy-foam for the Ford Mustang."

Lear, a leader in the area of environmental auto seating with industry firsts, liked the use of expanded polypropylene and polyethylene materials which are used in place of traditional polyurethane foam which offers reduced mass and are 100 percent recyclable.

"Using renewable resources is an important means to supplying automotive products that improve environmental impact," said Ray Scott, the senior vice president and president of Lear's Seating Systems Division. "This also helps in reducing the amount of pollution in the production of materials for automotive use. Ford Motor Company and Lear Corporation are able to bring this product to market ahead of our competitors due largely to our collaborative work with in the area of 'Green' technology."

Ford and Lear collaborated with the United Soybean Board - New Uses Committee (a group of 64 farmers and agriculture industry leaders), Urethane Soy Systems Company, Bayer Corporation and Renosol Corporation on soy-foam development.

"Soy is a very green, renewable resource," said Debbie Mielewski, the technical leader for Ford's Materials Research & Advanced Engineering Department. "Using soy-based foam gives us the opportunity to conserve natural resources and reduce our environmental footprint."

Ford said that the environmental advantages include reduced carbon dioxide emissions in manufacturing compared to petroleum-based foam, lower energy use to produce the soy foam and reduced dependence on foreign oil.

At present, most automakers today use 100 percent petroleum-based polyol foam. Each vehicle manufactured contains an average of 30 pounds of petroleum-based foam. The total annual worldwide market for the foam is nine billion pounds. Mielewski said that the auto manufacturers’ research and development of renewable, more environmentally friendly materials to produce the foam could have a significant environmental impact.

The Dearborn-based automaker has not calculated exactly how much oil it would save if it used the new foam for every application in all of the 2.9 million vehicles it produces annually. But Mielewski said that if all the foam was soy-based, Ford would use 11 million pounds of soy oil, and the petroleum savings would be a similar volume.

The foam, which is 40 percent soy and 60 percent oil-based, costs about the same as conventional foam that is fully oil-based, Mielewski said. "Currently we believe that the technology is a cost wash, but you have to remember that is because we are implementing it on one program and lower volumes," she said, predicting that the cost would drop when used in more vehicles.

The annual worldwide market for automotive foam is nine billion pounds, so a switch to a renewable material could have a significant environmental impact, Mielewski said. Ford hopes to use the new seat foam in more models in the upcoming 2008 model year, Mielewski added. It also is applying for patents on the foam technology. And no, the foams are not edible!

About the Author

Anthony Fontanelle is a 35-year-old automotive buff who grew up in the Windy City. He does freelance work for an automotive magazine when he is not busy customizing cars in his shop.

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