Just installed last night and I have to say I am very impressed with what this simple addition makes. The install is very straight forward, 16mm and 18mm bolts removed, arm out, inserts in, arm back in. Arm back in took some time and wrestling but was 30 mins start to finish on ramps.
Impressions-
-no vibrations at idle but slight when launching or accelerating from 1000-1500 rpm.
-launching from a stop is way easier/smoother. Stock, the clutch would feel like it was loading/winding up and then once clutch fully caught it would rebound making it feel jerky. Now it feels like you are solely modulating the clutch on the flywheel, very nice.
-another improvement I didn't expect is the whole front end feels better, more planted. Hard to explain but similar to effect of adding a larger sway bar. Perhaps my arm with 88k on it was well worn and allowed the motor to flop around a bit but it feels great now! for the price it really made a nice upgraded feeling to the car. Highly recommend.


-Also added one of those flashing 3rd brake light adapters from Outmotoring, loving it. Had my fiancée drive around and I followed her. The aiming of the bulbs in the light make the flashing not annoying at all but alerting. I have it set to the long 6 second flash with the smart mode enabled so it stops flashing in stop and go traffic. It really gets your attention better than just regular brake lights. In todays world where everyone is distracted I think this will help my odds of not getting rear ended by a texter.

 

Congrats on the mods.

 

I love the pulsar mod, I did it to my r53, and ill be putting one on the R60 as well. I think I also need this torque arm. I get the same feeling and mine only has 23k miles