M_Body_Coupe
Well-Known Member
So I'm stumped (at the moment) by this outcome: went to drop the newly finished W2 stroker motor into the coupe...tried no less than three separate times, each time I have the converter hub hanging up on the crank (meaning the block seems to lack clearance for the converter and crank to mesh nicely).
The weird part is that each one of these three attemps (actually more, I think we tried about 4-5 different setups) I moved and tilted the motor to try to avoid the obstacle, but of course trying to pull the motor up to the front just caused the engine mounts to completely MISS the mounting brackets!!!
Complete frustration as I am missing about 0.25" of room to make this thing click together!!!
OK, so what's different this time?
Well, I am using the Energy Suspension POLY engine mount inserts...and yeah, they are thicker, sure enough about 0.25" thicker than the factory mounts. But for that to be my major problem it seems rather silly. However, right now it seems like the key culprit since the inserts have a fairly sizeable cap/pad that captures the steel frame of the mount and of course these need to be somewhat compressed when the whole setup wiggles into the factory engine mount bracket in the frame.
Has anyone experienced a problem installing these?
I actually contemplated freeing up the transmission (by unbolting the supporting cross-member bracket and letting it drop), but it honestly shouldn't be this difficult to get this done.
Will try this again tomorrow, this time I'll toss my engine leveler setup (as opposed to just a straight hook mated up to an intake mounted engine lift plate). Maybe this will give me enough adjustability to somehow get the rigth tilt and free up the room I need.
As always, looking for ALL suggestions you guys have on what other things to check and look into...this literally has turned out to be the biggest challenge and was something I completely did NOT expect to encounter.
The weird part is that each one of these three attemps (actually more, I think we tried about 4-5 different setups) I moved and tilted the motor to try to avoid the obstacle, but of course trying to pull the motor up to the front just caused the engine mounts to completely MISS the mounting brackets!!!
Complete frustration as I am missing about 0.25" of room to make this thing click together!!!
OK, so what's different this time?
Well, I am using the Energy Suspension POLY engine mount inserts...and yeah, they are thicker, sure enough about 0.25" thicker than the factory mounts. But for that to be my major problem it seems rather silly. However, right now it seems like the key culprit since the inserts have a fairly sizeable cap/pad that captures the steel frame of the mount and of course these need to be somewhat compressed when the whole setup wiggles into the factory engine mount bracket in the frame.
Has anyone experienced a problem installing these?
I actually contemplated freeing up the transmission (by unbolting the supporting cross-member bracket and letting it drop), but it honestly shouldn't be this difficult to get this done.
Will try this again tomorrow, this time I'll toss my engine leveler setup (as opposed to just a straight hook mated up to an intake mounted engine lift plate). Maybe this will give me enough adjustability to somehow get the rigth tilt and free up the room I need.
As always, looking for ALL suggestions you guys have on what other things to check and look into...this literally has turned out to be the biggest challenge and was something I completely did NOT expect to encounter.