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Obviously if your frame flexes around this is a problem but if you're frame flexes much, that's a problem to solve in itself. A vehicle fabricated to this level should have a stiff frame.
I vote for using all the same mount, if you want to try solid, solid mount the whole thing. Just make sure you cage it front to rear.
I think if this setup was a problem I'd have torn it up by now.
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Wow, typically you're the last person I'd disagree with, but I think you're WAY off with this post.
1. Frame flex is not a problem. Frames are designed to flex. If it doesn't flex, it's going to crack. I personally would rather have flex myself. For your rig you can choose cracking if you so desire. To say that a rig fabricated to any point should have a, "Stiff frame" is an opinion and a poor one if you ask me. I guess we'll agree to disagree here.
2. Since frames are designed to flex, solid mounting the whole thing is the wrong answer if you ask me. From an engineering standpoint you're asking cast iron and aluminum to flex and spring back, and that is unacceptable in my opinion.
3. Just because you haven't broken it yet doesn't necessarily make it a good setup, and to try to use that to justify such a setup really just isn't a statement I'd be making at all. Next thing you know, you'll go out next weekend and break everything and all of a sudden you'll be the poster boy for softer mounts.
This is not a flame, simply a disagreement on engineering ideas. Typically you'd be the last person I'd disagree with on such issues, but I believe your points made to be far from reality in this case.
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1. Frame flex IS a problem to me, hence the reason for this post. I don't need opinoins here, I need real world experience.
2. Stock frames might be "designed to flex" but I don't want mine to flex. Again, same statement as above. I will take the precautions to strengthen the frame from the front to rear and as Watson said - there will be a cage from front to back.
3. Tried and true is a good way to go and eventually things fatigue over time - thats a given. I would tend to believe someone who has acutally tried something with success, with results to prove this theroy.
