[Fot] Fw: Intake Manifold Crossover

[Charly Mitchel]

Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Intake Manifold Crossover


>I just looked at the motor mounts @ Cambridge and those look a lot like a 
>Jaguar mount.  I know that would be much stronger.
> Charly Mitchel
> TR6 #44
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tony Drews" <tony at tonydrews.com>
> To: <fot at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 2:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Intake Manifold Crossover
>
>
>> Cambridge sells heavy duty motor mounts.  They're larger in diameter
>> than stock.  I've got a set I've been running for a few years, and
>> haven't broken them yet...  These are for the TR-4.  I don't know
>> what the TR-3 mounts are like, if they are different.
>>
>> http://shop.cambridgemotorsport.com/product_templates/product_default.cfm?menu_temp=tr4_cylinder.cfm&dep_id=1&prod_id=342&ass_id=19
>>
>> - Tony
>>
>> At 02:47 PM 5/6/2007, you wrote:
>>>Damn. I washed Peyote prior to sticking it into the trailer and was
>>>running the motor to dry it off when I noticed the water pump inlet
>>>hose sucking flat. As I stood and stared at that I noticed the motor
>>>mount looked weird. Yup, broken.
>>>
>>>I know this is a topic we've covered before, but has anyone found a
>>>better motor mount or come up with some rational modifications. I
>>>break at least one per year now that I've gone back to the stock
>>>rubber mounts (I was using home made solid mounts, but they do bad
>>>things to the bellhousing).  I'm thinking about drilling through the
>>>mount and countersinking a couple of bolts with loose nuts, but
>>>that's going to take a lot of fiddling to get right.
>>>
>>>Bill Babcock
>>>billb at bnj.com
>>>bnj  Website for Babcock & Jenkins, a direct and interactive agency
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