Hello,
I'm in the middle of a build and I need some guru info from all of you.
I pulled a 904 trans from my 65 barracuda that has a 318 swapped into it.
I'm swapping in a magnum 5.9 with the 46RE trans.
The issue I need help with is I'm trying to mock up the trans so i can do surgery to the tunnel So I left the lump of the 318 in bolted up as my mock up motor. while inspecting the setup i noticed (it looks like to me) that the motor mount are backwards as in left on right and so on. The reason why I think this is on the 318 block it has 3 holes for mounts on the passenger side and 4 on the drivers. But some one put the 4 hole mount on passenger side and 3 on the drivers side. I also noticed that the mounts are offset (slot hole). By flipping them it looks as though you could get about .5 .750 of an inch difference when flipped from side to side
I also noticed a sizable gap between the crossmember and the oil pan
Has any body else seen this?
This car also has a different rad in it and all I can come up with is that who ever owned this before me flipped the mounts to push the motor back enough to keep it from putting the fan into the rad.
All I want to know is what the correct placement is for the block so i can get my trans swap started.
thanks for any and all help.
I'm in the middle of a build and I need some guru info from all of you.
I pulled a 904 trans from my 65 barracuda that has a 318 swapped into it.
I'm swapping in a magnum 5.9 with the 46RE trans.
The issue I need help with is I'm trying to mock up the trans so i can do surgery to the tunnel So I left the lump of the 318 in bolted up as my mock up motor. while inspecting the setup i noticed (it looks like to me) that the motor mount are backwards as in left on right and so on. The reason why I think this is on the 318 block it has 3 holes for mounts on the passenger side and 4 on the drivers. But some one put the 4 hole mount on passenger side and 3 on the drivers side. I also noticed that the mounts are offset (slot hole). By flipping them it looks as though you could get about .5 .750 of an inch difference when flipped from side to side
I also noticed a sizable gap between the crossmember and the oil pan
Has any body else seen this?
This car also has a different rad in it and all I can come up with is that who ever owned this before me flipped the mounts to push the motor back enough to keep it from putting the fan into the rad.
All I want to know is what the correct placement is for the block so i can get my trans swap started.
thanks for any and all help.