Bike Engine Position

[chriseyj]

I've been playing around with the postion of my engine and have found to get everything level and the output shaft inline I need the sump to sit above one of the lower chassis rails. Does this seem right? Have the sump level left to right also. I prefer when the sump was just tucked up against the chassis rail and sitting in the void between the 2 rails, the output shaft was then out of line though similar to a Stuart Taylor Locosaki I've been reading about



This raises the engine up and going by Handy Andy's estimate of the scuttle and nose height I will definately have carb sticking out of the bonnet let alone air filter.


The lump can be chopped off so am not to worried.

Here is a picture of how far over it is, it looks ok.


I am wondering if I should just mount it lower and to the side of the chassis rail and have a slight prop offset?
Thanks Chris