cvh engine mounts

[DaddyA]

Originally Posted by HandyAndy

I have remade my engine mounts similar to the ones Ginge has made,

Daddy A....... i hope you don,t mind me asking.....but would the way you have made your drivers side mount cause stress onto the rubber mount threaded bolt as its horizontal to the engine?
I thought that by giving it a slight sloping downwards position from the engine would give a stronger mount,

or am I barking up a wrong tree?

cheers
andy

Andy,

the way I looked at it was, the weight would be directed downwards so putting the weight on the rubber.

If I angled it, surely the weight would be trying to push the mount away????

We'll have to see once its running

hopefully it will be ok, or i'll be making a new mount (hoping thats all i'd have to make).

[HandyAndy]

Originally Posted by DaddyA

Andy,

the way I looked at it was, the weight would be directed downwards so putting the weight on the rubber.

If I angled it, surely the weight would be trying to push the mount away????

We'll have to see once its running

hopefully it will be ok, or i'll be making a new mount (hoping thats all i'd have to make).

Daz.....

I totally agree with your logic as i too thought the same & had intended to make mine the same as yours,
my question is just based upon , when i looked at the original alloy engine mount from the sierra it has the mounting point at the chassis end lower than the engine end, & so thought i,d try to replicate that positioning ( not easy i know due to the Roadster steering column position).

I,m not questioning the way you have done it, more a case of questioning my own thought process of my mounts.

cheers
andy

[DaddyA]

No worries Andy,

i'm sure all roadsters being built will be different and we've all got our ideas.

The amount of different ways I come up with and then think sod it, i'll just make it and see what it turns out like.

Hopefully it wil do the job a treat until an up grade post iva can be sorted.

[flyerncle]

Depending on the rotation of the engine one mounting will be in compresion and the other in tension and to my way of thinking something at 90 degrees to the angle of the stress may tend to bend other than a mounting at a more acute angle like the orignal places the force more vertical.

Hope the above makes some sense !

Looking back at Daz's picture I dont think it will bend.

[twinturbo]

I was also thinking they must be designed to resist the rotation ( torque ).

But I don't think one is higher than the other on the 2.9.

TT

[twinturbo]

Picked up some drover v8 mounts of the bay for £7.50 delivered

TT

[alga]

I checked a local drover parts shop and picked up the mounts at £2.50 apiece!