Engine Mounting on original RV8 Tuscan

[Tuscan_No27]

I have an original rover based Tuscan V8 engine but my rolling chassis is an AJP car.

The engine mounts for the AJP engine are still in place (see photo) and I'd like to leave them for future use but I need to add mounts for the RV8.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/5

If anyone has an original Tuscan engine & chassis, I'd appreciate a digital photo of their engine mounts because I'm not sure where to support the engine and what the mounts should look like.

Thanks !
Richard

[Graham]

I cant quite see in that pic, but you see the vertical chassis tube that has the plug leads drapped over it, well my chassis has 2 tubes weleded on/through it to take the engine mount bolts, doesnt look like yours does, so it must be a very late chassis, mine is ajp but still had them...

e managed to mate to those using chim/griff rubbers and mounts with a large piece of angle welded onto the mount to mate to the rubber mounts.


If i was doing it from scratch i'd probably come off the same chassis tube, but put brackets on either side of it, a bit like the suspension mounting points, and then weld up some mounts to take a suspension bush at that end to mate up.

G

[bigrumbly]

I made my engine mounts from rover sd1 brackets and universal rubber engine mount bushes. I will see if I can take a photo for you. Depends wether the exhaust hides too much. My car was a late AJP chassis as is yours.
Cheers David

[Tuscan_No27]

That'd be great if you can. Sounds a sensible way forward.

The thing I'm most unclear about is where on the 4441cc engine block I'm supposed to support it as there's a few likely places. Maybe its a case of whichever is most practical when everything is in place.

Cheers
Richard