Front Motor Plate

Well motor was jack up in the front when i install the motor.Looks bad so i decided to put a front motor plate and lower the engine some in the front what a mess.I ordered a competition engineering front plate and had to cut it to fit the frame rails and when i lower it the dang headers is hitting the bracket on k-member that motor mount bolt to looks as i will have cut them off and then the headers looks as they will hit the steering shaft next.

Fun with cars....

stuff never "bolts right up"......

My k-member is lowered one inch.  The passenger side cleared fine, but I had to cut off the motor mount stand on the drivers side.  No issues with the steering column though.  I got the motor plate and headers used, I believe that they are from D+D.  If the k-member was not lowered I would have had to cut the passenger side too.  

Weird thing is that the 460 swap headers(2"), have more room around the steering shaft than the 351w swap shorty headers(1 5/8") that I have in another fox mustang.

Jess

Mustang-junky wrote:My k-member is lowered one inch.  The passenger side cleared fine, but I had to cut off the motor mount stand on the drivers side.  No issues with the steering column though.  I got the motor plate and headers used, I believe that they are from D+D.  If the k-member was not lowered I would have had to cut the passenger side too.  

Weird thing is that the 460 swap headers(2"), have more room around the steering shaft than the 351w swap shorty headers(1 5/8") that I have in another fox mustang.

Jess

Had to cut the driver side motor mount stand also and then i was able to lower it on down.