OK, well I've just been driving this thing pretty much daily and haven't spent too much time working on it.
There are a couple projects I need to tackle before winter, but today I took care of part of another I have been wanting to do.
The motor mounts in this thing have bugged me since day one, mainly because I manufacture performance mounts for some other cars, the sloppiness of the stockers bug me. I haven't has time to come up with a "new" bracket design yet and things hadn't looked good for that yet. I stuck a ratchetstrap on it a week or so ago and it was doing "ok", but still not to my liking.
I decided to come up with an interim solution until I got the other stuff done, so as to not deal with the stock mounts any longer.
So I had this pile of parts...
And decided to make these...
I had some of my poly isolators and stainless hardware sitting around and looking at the lot of it the other day, just decided to stick these together and see what happened, even though they wouldn't be "ideal".
The isolators are a dual durometer (70A/45A). I just enlarged the proper holes on the brackets for the 1/2" bolts and put it together.
The engine pretty much does NOT move now, save for just a tiny bit, but the vibrations are possibly going to be tedious. I've used poly mounts in my TBird for years, so I'm used to some. I didn't expect them to be silky smooth though.
I think the major issue is the way the stock brackets are angled and putting the bushings in shear a bit and less in compression as I normally use these isolators for.
I may try and get some all 45A isolators with my next bushing order just for the time being. I have a couple other ideas though which would probably work better.