The Stoat
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| posted on 13/6/05 at 03:21 PM |
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Gearbox mounting
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
Some are born stupid, I had stupidity thrust upon me.
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NS Dev
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| posted on 13/6/05 at 03:24 PM |
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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.
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nick205
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| posted on 13/6/05 at 03:24 PM |
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check out
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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
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nick205
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| posted on 13/6/05 at 03:26 PM |
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beat me to it NS 
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The Stoat
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| posted on 13/6/05 at 03:30 PM |
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Spooky, you wait for a gearbox thread all day, then 2 come along at once!
Thankyou collective hive-brain types.
The Stoat
Some are born stupid, I had stupidity thrust upon me.
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 13/6/05 at 05:26 PM |
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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
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JohnN
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| posted on 13/6/05 at 10:32 PM |
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Hows about 2 landrover/range rover gearbox mounts, cheap as chips
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