Thanks for the detailed reply. I will hopefully be mounting the engine/trans tomorrow. As you would have noticed also, there isn't a great deal of room to fit the engine and everything in. Getting the steering to clear might be difficult. Haha. Let the games begin.To cut a long story short, I paid a guy to mount the engine and gearbox, axles and ute body (that formed the front 1/2 of my body) onto the chassis. I went there to start him off and set up the body placement in relation to the front axle. He then went about and mounted the engine inside the engine bay that was there leaving 40mm behind the x over pipe to the firewall. The gearbox mount was then located to suit the rubber mount underneath the bracket. The gearbox x member was modified to suit as well. Then when I got the car back I found he had ballsed it all up so started from scratch again. As an example I asked him to make the 1600mm rear diff out to 1630mm, he made it 1560mm for example. The steering arm and front panhard bar made an X and the engineer laughed at that,......
This time I am using the 80 series engine mounts and locating them to suit much in the same method above, come off the firewall etc..... while making sure that I have enough room for the radiator and a/c bits up front.
I hope that made sense. Guy who will be fitting it does a lot of engine swaps and is pretty confident it will all go smoothly this time. My only concern will be running the steering column somewhere and there isn't much room between the engine and the standard location of the shock towers. This was a trial fitment before the guy picked up the chassis and engine etc.... to fabricate it.
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Pic gap to firewall.
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chassis mounted engine brackets he made up. Not entirely sure why he didn't just use what was there and move it to the required location.
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gap between chassis and oil return from turbo.
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rear view looking forward showing gearbox and transfer case. comes a bit close to the output side in this pic, but all those brackets as well as suspension brackets have come off the chassis and a new front diff has been purchased.
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Thanks again