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Old 11-05-2015, 12:22 PM
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frug
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Engine back in and some mounts planned out and made up, what we did here was make both mounts slightly lower than the final position so that we could level it up perfectly with some spacers under the rubber mounts, we just used washers to get the height right on either side and then measured them so i can make a couple of spacers up before final fitting, after all this it would look a real bastard if the engine wasnt totally level




The drivers side arm placed the rubber mount directly in the way of the steering column, so we cut and drilled a plate to bolt to the block and then used some pretty serious box section to make a dog leg to go down below the column, im no expert on the minimum strength we could have got away with for this, and neither of us want a failure, so it was made way too strong!!! I reckon the subframe would tear off before that ugly bastard breaks
The other side was a little simpler and just required the original arm and a mounting point welding into the subframe