Homemade engine mounts

[cjh]

I made a set of engine mounts for my slant 6 to go drag racing.
Nothing was available in Oz for a slant, only a V8, and they want $345 + freight.
I already had some urethane bushings ( free ), and some spare engine mount brackets, just gome some flat bar steel, and some hollow bar steel, and machined that to suit the bushes.
I made the crush tubes from and old shockie shaft, 22mm.
First off, I had to make a frame to hold the engine up while doing the mounts.

 

[cjh]

The left side was the easy side....righthand side, not so easy...........
They are yet to be blasted and painted.

 

[67Dart273]

With your obvious fab skills, I don't know why you would have done different LOL

"Job well done!!"

 

[72ScampTramp]

Nice work Craig.

 

[Valleyant]

The right side looks like the left, but flipped up side down.....make some and send them to the US!!! awesome job!

 

[RustyRatRod]

Aussies are plain kickass. That's all there is to it.

 

[68383GTS]

Nice....

 

[Cooter]

The right side looks like a real bastard to squeeze a hand in there. These are very sweet lookin spools, dude.

 

[cjh]

Thanks for the comments, fellas.

 

[no poseur]

Very nice.

 

[racerhog]

Awesome Dude !!!!!!!!!!!!! Good Job...

 

[barbee6043]

very cool, great work!
SOooooo, is it true Aussie's don't really eat kangaroo??

 

[74Dusted]

Very nice. Biscuit to Spool "Conversion" Mounts.

I should make a set of those for my '76 Ramcharger (72-93 Dodge trucks used the Biscuit style mounts) to convert it over to Spool Mounts.

 

[/6 Matt]

This... is.... EPIC!!!!!!!!!!:glasses7:

 

[cjh]

very cool, great work!
SOooooo, is it true Aussie's don't really eat kangaroo??

This is the only country in the world where you can eat BOTH of the animals on the Coat of Arms........

http://www.anbg.gov.au/emblems/commonwealth-coa/SC3_139.gif


I have eaten 'Roo....it's prity good, doesn't smell the best though....haven't had any Emu......Water Buffalo tastes good too, but again, doesn't smell real good.

 

[BillGrissom]

Excellent work. Did you mean you couldn't get rectangular rubber motor mounts? They cost <$10 ea in U.S., but perhaps Oz cars are different (look identical to me). It is interesting where the factory put the oil filter on Oz cars. I bet designing the steering on the right side was a squeeze, and makes it very hard to work on.

 

[cjh]

Excellent work. Did you mean you couldn't get rectangular rubber motor mounts? They cost <$10 ea in U.S., but perhaps Oz cars are different (look identical to me). It is interesting where the factory put the oil filter on Oz cars. I bet designing the steering on the right side was a squeeze, and makes it very hard to work on.

Yep....if the steering box has to come out, it's remove the Torsion bar to get it out.
The steering box is bolted to the frame rail, as is the Idler Arm.
Those rubber mounts here are $100 each.....and I'm going drag racing, so the rubber mounts aren't gunna handle the hiding.

 

[69MOPE]

Very nice.

When you did the welding, did the weld puddle flow the opposite direction of the way it does here? LOL

 

[cjh]

When you did the welding, did the weld puddle flow the opposite direction of the way it does here? LOL

Nah....this time of year, the puddle doesn't spin.....the sun is too close.....LOL.