Reply to "custom ZF mounts"

When I moved the powertrain back 3/4" & lowered 1" by sectioning & redrilling the front lower motormounts, that much dropped the oil pan VERY close to my removeable crossmember under the engine, and put the AC & its bracket on top of the water pipe that goes to the surge tank. The mini-starter touches the frame & needed clearancing. A stock starter would need far more trimming. The gearshift rod now barely clears the left motormount pass-thru & the bellhousing/block flange in back. Pushing the engine fwd will move the harmonic balancer & crank pulley into the frame crossmember at the bottom of the access door. Pushing it backwards clears that crossmember, at least! The exhaust pipes & header flanges may need trimming to miss the coil-overs, or a new exhaust system. The bay brace now comes quite close to the bellhousing and clutch slave cylinder/bracket.

All these things are correctible but this exercise is a whole collection of little cuts, adjustments and tweeks all around the engine. ZF repositioning is the easy part- I just s-bent the frame tabs & redrilled.