I'm designing and making the mounts for my K conversion at the moment and would like some feedback in regards to mounts.

I believe that the two chassis mounts are mainly for the support of the motor ie the motors weight and that the rear/front mount is to control torque that is generated by the motor.

With the two mounts (one off the head to the drivers side of the chassis, the other off the gearbox onto the passengers side of the chassis), wouldn't it be better to have the mount located directly above the chassis rail thereby reducing the twist of the chassis by the motors weight??? Also these mounts only need to support the weight on the motor/box ie 400lbs at most?

Isn't the rear/front mount the one that takes the brunt of the motor's torque??

Any inputs???

 

sides = support

f/r = stability/torque

most importnat to have at least 3, side & side + f/r

teh mounting location depends on what you got to work with, if you can put tehm above the rails - all the more better...

t..

 

also you want the mounts to be able to support more than just the weight
because you have to figure in bumps railroad tracks that put a jolt on everything in the car

i say go soopa doopa on the mount strength

 

Anyone else........