Originally Posted by jniolon

Sadly Jag... it's probably true and I"m serious. I'm thinking about it more and the welding just won't work without lots of bad smoke/soot and ruined motor mounts... Albuq is right about the penetration...

Plan B would be to cut off the orignal engine mounts from the crossmember and redo... but it's a hassle to have to hang the motor from the hoist and get everything plumb, centered, angled correctly then do the fabbing for the mounts...... then rework the welded areas and repaint.. that's at least two times to install the engine and take it out... and transmout to rework... which is probably just 4 new holes if I'm lucky... just lots of time crawling and climbing and laying under the ride... so I was looking for an easier way...

Investigation of the offset plates begins tomorrow.....

Sam... where did you find 7/16" flat head bolts in a grade 8 ?? those are some pretty adapters... lazer cut and all prettied up... someone somewhere has done this on a 460.

First thing is to break in run the engine and get it off the breakin stand... then remove the doghouse and install engine/trans and the radiator and see just how much I can steal from the fan/radiator/coil and the little space between the pulley and the fan... then begin...

thanks for all the wise input... you just convinced me of what I already suspected... I'm screwed (probably)... hey if I hit the 5oo mill Ga lottery, I'm gonna pack it all up and ship it to Chuck and let him figure it out

later
John