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Making
the mounts
Before we removed the Fiero engine from the cradle, we made a
reference mark on the cradle as to where the center line of
the crank is so that we can get the caddy crank center line in
the same place. This will assure us that the drive angles are
the same.
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June 8, 2006
The stock V6 getting measured up.
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| Once we get the caddy bolted
up to the transmission, we will block the engine in place and
fab the mounts then. |
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| We already had the engine
torn down for the rebuild, but we were able to eyeball the
crank center line within a 1/16 of an inch.
Once we have established the position
was correct, we began the first mount. |
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| A common Chevy transmission
tail shaft mount was used as the forward engine mount. We took
a piece of 3/16 thick angle iron, trimmed it to the length of
the mount, drilled matching holes to fit the mount, put the
bolts in, and tacked it to the cradle. Time: about 20 minutes.
We used a urethane performance mount.
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| After the first mount was
temporarily tacked to the cradle, we began the second mount.
This one took more time. We used the same type of mount for
this one too. This mount is in the same location as the
original mount under the oil pan of the engine. We only needed
to trim the cradle a bit and elongate a hole to make the mount
fit. |
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look |
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I made up a cardboard template to make
up a plate from the engine block to the mount. It needed to
have "foot" to extend under the oil pan to the
mount.
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More photos of mounts
coming.
We have finished the
mounts and have done a test fit of the engine. All went well
with no surprises.
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