How to build small block chev engine mounts

WOW! I'm guessing your "work" involves some sort of mechanical drawing or illustration. And, judging from the "office" sign on the garage, you must be self-employed too. Good work on the car also. I would'nt think you'd have any trouble finding work with the kind of talent you have. Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

Not a Traditional way of making drawings but badass none the less! Nice work on the drawings and the ride

 

Very impressive work! Thank you for sharing.

 

Thanks guys---My "Real Work" is that of design engineer. And yes, I am self employed for the past 8 years now. Hotrodding has been my passion for about 40 years. I am a survivor from "Back in the day".---Brian
www.rupnowdesign.com

 

No Thank You, Brian, excellent work-thanks for sharing!!!

 

Lobucrod---I did my technical drawings the "Traditional Way" on a drafting board for 33 years.--Untill the perception in the job market became "If this guy can't do his work on a computer, he must not be very good!!!" So then it was back to college at 50 yrs. old to enter computer world, and the magic of 3D.
Now, in addition to designing prototype machinery and automation, I teach 3D solid modelling.
I'm 62 now, and loving self employment, after working for big engineering firms for the first 33 years. Just hope this suck assed economy picks up soon.

 

I commend you on keeping up with the times. I am really impressed with your work. I am semi retired......going broke fast in other words........and am self employed now. Im only 57 and hoping the economy recovers in the next 8 or 10 years so there will be something left of my rapidly declining 401K. Hopefully my business will keep me going till then.

 

Brian you are unbelievably talented, I have used your posted info to help me get a plan together for my 30 Tudor project I am starting

thank you for sharing

Josh

 

There is many ways to do an engine mount.
Every builder has ther own ideas how they should look.
My idea was to get the old school look, or as they should look the way the factory would do it.

 

OutlawBender---That looks very good but as I said, I run most of my cars "full fendered" and the part you have setting on top of the frame rail would interfere with the fender flange.--Very nice worksmanship!---Brian

 

Very nice drawing Brian, Not to knock the drawings or anything but there are many types of engine mount design and my thinking is if you can't design them yourself should you be messing with cars

 

langy--this is very true of people who have been building cars for a few years. However, I can well remember, back just after the extinction of the dinosaurs, when I was building my fist hotrod. Every magazine (there were hardly any aftermarket suppliers then) wanted to sell me a "kit" to mount engines. I had no money, but I did have a cutting torch, and I would have killed for a set of plans to follow. These "How to" articles I post are not aimed at veteran rod builders. They are for the new guys out there who don't want to purchase a "kit" in some form for everything they go to do.---brian

 

Brian in post 4 you have a drawing of the mount that bolts to the motor green & yellow could the yellow be fliped upside down (would need to be made longer) to lift the motor higher in the chassis would this have any impact on the chassis also would this be strong enough for a buick nailhead

 

nutter--If you wanted to raise the engine in the chassis, keep the design of the mount that attaches to the engine the same and just make the plates that attach to the frame taller. Remember--the mounts shown are specific to a small block chev engine. I think a buick nailhead is a totally different style of mount.

 

Brian,

Thanks! Excellent post and drawings, a big help for my current build.

Oldskoolguy

 

Hi Brian

Please excuse my question if the answer is obvious but is there a fail safe in the design should the bolt break in the mount? Or is this typicla of all SBC mounts? I ask as my 302W is set up on ford factory style mounts so the bolts only hold the motor in the mount and the mount takes all the weight? Thanks as always for a cool thread. Just printed out your A frame one to read (again) tonight.

 

Thanks, that is something that many of can use or expand on for our own applications.

For me at least, seeing someone else' work or design switches on the brain and gets it functioning in the right direction.

 

Brian

thanks for posting this, as you say it's aimed at all hotrodders as a guide on how to do this type of stuff at home, excellant and thank you.
excuse me if it's a bone-sounding question, but is there any reason why an engine mount like this would not work for an in-line six motor?
thanks, Taff

 

Brian.
Thanks for the info much appreciated.

 

I have never broken a 1/2" bolt in double shear in over 40 years of hotrodding and drag racing. ---and yes, that style of mount will work in any style of self propelled vehicle from aeroplanes to choo choo trains, and any motor from 4 cylinders up to V12 allisons (although the V12 Allisons might make me a bit nervous.

 

Brian, Excellent thread, I may need your services I just picked a nice 49 Ford 2-door with a rebuilt Flattie (yuk) and am presently deciding whether to yank it and replace it with a SBC or not. I keep forgetting about your talents, remind me to give you a discount on your next "APPRAISAL". Larry

 

Larry---Damn. I just loves it when ya sweet talks me!!!

 

SWEET cad drawings. printing them out for sure, putting them in the library.

 

Revenge of the CAD-master!
Speaking of landing some new projects Mr. A,
you speakee Mandarin? A buddy's son is planning to teach, his first real job, in a town near Shanghai. A long way from home but much in the way of opportunities for him.
I understand they still actually make things over theah.
Nice to see 3D work on sumptin' useful!

 

Pitman--I'm too old to go scuttling about the world to far off places, but your right-----There is going to be a world of work opportunities teaching other people to do the work that used to be done in North America. (Thats kind of like braiding the rope for the person who is going to hang you!!!) Fortunately for me, there is still enough things being built here to keep me employed for the next couple of years untill I retire. Thank Christ I work in the world of prototype machinery---at least it demands a presence in person, that the yellow peril can't quite manage yet.

 

Pete, while I think Brian is correct in saying that it would be unlikely to break a 1/2" bolt in double shear, I was taught that the motor should be supported by the mounts. I can sit my nailhead in and out without worrying about getting the bolts in and out or supporting the weight of the motor to do so. I like it like that.

My nailhead is mounted in my A model frame using the stock rubber motor mounts. They sit neatly on the mounts shown in the pic below.



Not contradicting anything you have posted Brian. It's a good thread. Just throwing in some options as they seemed appropriate

Pete

 

The Harmonic balancer on the steering bars.