Vibration Between 2500-3400 rpms. What can this be?

bjtheman1

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I have a Manual trans. Replaced the clutch with exedy Mach 500 and exedy steel flywheel, new throw out bearing. New clutch setup has about 15k on it.

I have pretty much the same symptoms you have. In neutral my car has a noticeable vibration and it feels a bit as well when driving, but easy noticed when at idle. I too had the same clutch and flywheel you have installed last year.

I've been checking everything I can to get rid of it for I don't want excessive vibrations to cause any other probs. Ive thrown parts and had Ford and a performance shop check it out with no luck. My gut says it's my clutch b/c it seems to have gotten worse over time.
 

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So I checked under the car and realized that there was a spot on the driver side where the header was touching the transmission bell housing barely! It's because I wrapped the headers and the wrap was taking up a little bit of space allowing them to gently touch. The exact same thing was happening on the passenger side by the subframe.

I cut the wrap off in those areas and use the prybar to slightly bend them out and then cleaned everything up and there's about an eighth of an inch gap or maybe a little bit more between those contact spots.

I then cut the hangers on the H pipe and realized that the tabs were loose on the passenger side rubber hanger holder. That's the rattling that I was hearing.

Then I realize the engine mounts weren't torqued down to 49 foot-pounds they were only about 10 foot pounds, so I read torque both nuts.

After all of this about 60-75% of the vibrations are gone. I suppose the remaining vibration I have is probably considered normal considering I have no cats and I have long tubes.

Definitely much much better.
 

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