Came across this yesterday. I went to buy some camel hump heads for cheap that I saw on craigs list. When I got there the guy was removing them from a sbc that came out of a wooden boat. This cast front motor mount was still hanging on it. What was cool about it was that it allowed you to run a stock fuel pump unlike a regular hurst saddle mount. I paid $20 for it. I don't know what type wooden boat it came from but the motor was a '66 283. Start checking out the boatyards...
Looks like the mounts on the 283 out of my grandpa's Chris Craft. And similar to the mount we used to put a SBC in my brother's F-1. Just built it to hit the factory mounts on the frame from the flatty.
The nice ones are for V-drives, nice and strong, as as the engine was out in the open, were designed with appearance in mind, usually nice castings. I thought about using a front one on the Falcon, but the car sits too low and would have had to cut it up too much. One thing I was told to resist is the temptation to try and use one of the cam drives through the front cover w/ water pump, as the pumps aren't very durable and are quite high maintenance. Do a search on ebay and there's usually a few mounts on there
There is one for a flathead Ford on eBay right now. My '64 Chris Craft Supersport had a great small block chevy in it (327 with 4 barrel) ran great, excellent craftsmanship on the installation of a V-8 in a wood boat.
Yep, just put a little plate over that hole at the center of the cam so you won't get tempted to use a boat pump. They look great, don't they? That's similar to the FE one I wanted to use in the falcon
I run one similiar to this on my HA/GR. Got two of them out of a boat that had a slant six in it, put one on my car and one on my sons. They were not cast, but fabricated out of 1/4" plate, they work great. Robert
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