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Thanks for the picture, although I think this is above my simple skills to construct, especially if it is aluminium as it appears to have brackets welded to it and i have never tried welding aluminium. I think that I will have to go with a simpler design such as the one John has pictured.
I want to follow up with you the concept of mounting the engine higher. How was this achieved? packing out the engine mounts or different brackets? does this affect / give problems with the aligment with the rest of the drive train? How much height did you gain?
David
Hello, i did not weld on the sump guard but welded two brackets on the suframe to bolt the sumpguard on.
I lifted the enige a bit so the sump is a bit higher than the subframecrossmembers. I have made another engine mounting than std.
The RH bracket that is welded on the subframe to mount the engine mounting I grinded off and welded a modified on it. It still accepts the std sprint mounting but has another angle. It now looks like the 1850 setup. The engine is more steady in the car and the oilpump does not hit the steeringrack anymore. The standard horizontal mounting does not work and the engine has too much up and down movement. With two angular mountings the engine cannot move down easily.
You have to make your own engingebracket with the same angle and with this bracket you can choose your enginehight in the car. I did not notice any difference in roadholding and cornering with the engineweight a few centimeters higher.
Jeroen