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Originally Posted by Dieseltim
The plate is 6065 t651 Aircraft quality alum. and all of the bolts are 1/2 coarse threaded bolts. I went with the 1/2" thick so that the input shaft and the pilot bearing have the proper ingaugement, if you use anything thicker you will not be into the pilot bearing far enough. I decided that 1/2 was thicker than the bell housing, so the bellhousing would most likely fail before the adapter plate.
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Could you do a steel plate option for people who want something heavier duty? I can imagine some people needing to use mounting arrangements which place quite high bending moments on the bellhousing.
A steel plate will flex 1/3 of what aluminium does, but it will also weigh 3x as much.