I'm nearly at the stage where the big bits of the car will need to be mounted ( Blu-tac is not SVA compliant apparently) I am fitting a crossflow with a type 9 into a Luego locost and was wondering what is the strongest/neatest/best way to do it.

Obviously you cannot use the Sierra gearbox mount complete as it is huge so do you cut it down to fit and modify or do you remove the centre part of the mount (the rubber bit) and then make something that locates the box where you want it?

If anyone has photo's of a finished mount that would be very helpful, as all the ones I've seen so far use a 4 speed box from the Escort.

Regards,

The Stoat

best to buy a westfield type 9 mounting (much stiffer than the floppy sierra one) and then weld plates to the chassis to reach that.

check out We stfield's Type 9 mount. Cheap, very stiff and generally good, many on here have replaced the standard Ford item with this including me.

HTH

Nick

beat me to it NS

Spooky, you wait for a gearbox thread all day, then 2 come along at once!

Thankyou collective hive-brain types.

The Stoat

My Luego locost had the mounting plate welded to the chassis already for the mounting,so location wasn't a problem . Used the mounting with the bracket removed but suspect mounting is too soft , am going to fit the Westfield item . Also used Luego engine mountings, very sturdy and easy to fit .

Hows about 2 landrover/range rover gearbox mounts, cheap as chips