034Motorsport Billet Aluminum Upper Dogbone Mount Insert - VW Mk5/Mk6/B6/5N, Audi 8J, 8P
KIT INCLUDES:
- 034Motorsport Upper Dogbone Mount Insert
- 034Motorsport Lower Dogbone Mount Insert Spacer
The 034Motorsport Upper Dogbone Mount Insert (patent pending) strongly recommended for any MkV/MkVI Volkswagen Golf/GTI/R/Jetta/GLI and 8P Audi A3 and 8J Audi TT/TTS/TTRS using any dogbone mount and dogbone mount insert. Aggressive driving that causes violent drivetrain movement, such as burn-outs that induce wheel-hop, will cause the upper and lower dogbone mounts to exert a bending moment on the dogbone mount arm, causing it to bend, and in some cases fail. When this failure occurs, the bottom of the engine is unconstrained and the engine will cause damage to other components in the engine bay. The 034Motorsport Upper Dogbone Mount Insert eliminates these bending forces, allowing the dogbone mount to perform as designed during these violent events.
Any dogbone mount combined with a lower dogbone mount insert dramatically improves the feel and responsiveness of the drivetrain during spirited driving. However, this combination of modifications has revealed a scenario that applies forces to the dogbone mount arm that it was not designed for.
The lower dogbone mount insert limits compliance of the lower dogbone mount puck by filling large voids in the puck. During normal and spirited driving, this reduction in compliance results in more direct transitional response of the drivetrain to accelerative and decelerative forces. The driver feels more direct throttle response through the drivetrain without introducing a significant amount of NVH.
However, violent drivetrain shocks, such as burn-out induced wheel-hop, introduce additional forces that can cause damage to the dogbone mount arm. In these violent events, the lower puck motion is limited by the dogbone insert, but the upper puck in unconstrained and is free to move forward.
This means that the entire puck assembly rotates forward at an angle towards the front of the car. Because the dogbone mount arm is clamped into the puck assembly, the rotation of the puck assembly generates a bending moment applied to the dogbone mount arm that it was not designed for.
034's engineering team developed the 034Motorsport Billet Upper Dogbone Mount Insert to solve the issue. This insert slips into the front void of the upper dogbone mount puck, limiting the forward motion of the upper puck to match the limited forward-motion of the lower puck with the lower insert installed. The result is an upper and lower insert package that eliminates the rotation inside the puck assembly during extreme drivetrain shocks, and keeps the forces acting on the dogbone arm in the direction the arm was designed for. Subsequent testing showed no signs of bending or stress in the dogbone mount arm with both the upper and lower dogbone mount inserts installed. Watch the demonstration video below to see how the dogbone mount pucks move with just the lower insert, and the upper and lower insert combined.
Fitment/Applications:
- 2009-2013 Audi A3 8P
- 2009-2014 Audi 8J TT
- 2009-2014 Audi 8J TTS
- 2009-2014 Audi 8J TTRS
- 2009-2013 VW B6 CC
- 2009 VW Eos
- 2009 VW Mk5 GLI
- 2011-2017 VW Mk6 GLI
- 2009 VW Mk5 Rabbit
- 2010-2014 VW Mk6 Golf
- 2012-2013 VW Mk6 Golf R
- 2009 VW Mk5 GTI
- 2010-2014 VW Mk6 GTI
- 2009 VW Mk5 Jetta
- 2010-2017 VW Mk6 Jetta
- 2009-2011 VW B6 Passat
- 2009-2016 VW 5N Tiguan
Installation Instructions