[DML] Re: Separating the bellhousing from engine

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't get too excited -- motor mount adapters are only 6x6 inches or
so. But they are made of REAL metal (1/4" alloy steel). Bolt to the
crossmember using the original motor mount holes, so the car can
easily convert back to a stock block if necessary (all my K Jetronic
wiring and plumbing is still in there too). Wrap around the
crossmember, using its corner for strength on the DeLo end. Let's be
honest -- the stock frame isn't hitting on much. I see now why
Northern owners park their cars November-March. A little road salt
would snap a sheet metal frame in half.

My biggest problem is height. Engine cover just barely cleared the air
filter when I test fit the manifold and carb on the old block. Now I'm
1/4" too tall. My current cover is so badly damaged (PO used it to
hold up the louvers in lieu of new struts, breaking it in several
places) that I wouldn't mind simply cutting it to fit. A more elegant
solution -- perhaps even swapping lower engine castings with an old
style block, -- can be effected after the Pigeon Forge deadline.

Bill Robertson
#5939
 
>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Scott Mueller"
<scott.a.mueller@xxxx> wrote:
> With parts engineered by railroad folks in the back of the car, you
may now
> be able to do wheelies;>)
> 





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