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I agree with you, now, after I have learned all this over the course of several weeks. I won't have any pics of the failed bolts at the moment, but I have a few things to add to this conversation. Technically, the jury is still out, because I don't have the car back, and won't find out for some time if those bolts will fail again. But, the shop where the car is now to be repaired said that the failed bolts were welded into their carrier, which is a mistake made by the previous mechanic. I think the stock installation had the bolts loose in the carrier. The carrier itself is welded to the muffler, but the bolts are just encapsulated in the carrier, and loose, and then connected to the upper mounting bracket. So, if the bolts were welded to their carrier on top of the muffler, then I can easily see where this would create issues, perhaps even with the Wevo's in place. Still, because of the "balance" created by the original engineering design, I am going back to that. Stock trans mounts are going in, Wevo's are coming out and muffler is being repaired and reinstalled.
We shall see...
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