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Old 11-28-2007, 07:30 PM   #9
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Default Re: considering an engine swap

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Originally Posted by ViperTom View Post
Other than making motor mounts what needs to be fabricated?

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Tom
I fabbed up some mounts out of angle iron. The real trick to it is finding the correct belt size. You can have a really good engine and get 3/4 inch off on the belt size and it would run horribly. I really lucked out and the 2nd belt I tried worked good. If you look at the 3rd picture over basically what I did was cut two peices of angle iron both congruent to each other. I bolted them to the frame. I used a mount that has I shaped mounting holes on the engine plate. This way you can adjust the engine front-back and left-right incase something is out of line when you bolt it in. It was very easy for me to install it took about 2 afternoons. You have to know what your doing and have the ability to fabricate if your going to mount it without a kit. I hope I helped and not confused.I kind of typed alot.

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