EJ22-Type3 engine mount. Looking for ideas please

type3dub Learner Dubber

10 posts · joined Jun 2008 · 20 Sep 2008, 7:09 pm

#670429

Hey I'm putting the motor in this week and am looking for ideas on engine mounts. Havnt realy had a look yet and not sure where to start. Actually the motor should be bolted up tomorrow.

thanks

Rich

pete wood 23 Windows of Awesome

6,828 posts · joined Jan 2004 · 21 Sep 2008, 10:35 am

#670491

add some removable chassis horns to your rear subframe to mount the gearbox off. triangulate them to the shock mount. make a new cross member for the engine support. you may want to add some extra metal in the back section to stiffen it up. Wayne Penrose did this with a turbo type4 notch he built. There's a bunch of pics of it in VWmA over the last year or so.

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type3dub Learner Dubber

10 posts · joined Jun 2008 · 21 Sep 2008, 1:58 pm

#670502

Thanks Pete. Good Ideas there. I have a trans mount from V-force racing and They are going to send me some pics helping me with installing it. Yep looks like I'll do what you said and start fabbing. Just got work out how to use this tig welder 🤓

ratbug aka toddy101

439 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 21 Sep 2008, 9:19 pm

#670587

Yeah what pete said.. Also I had trouble getting the stock engine mounts/brackets to do what I wanted to do, so I got some new ones from the auto parts store, off a commodore or something, that were better sized.

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type3dub Learner Dubber

10 posts · joined Jun 2008 · 22 Sep 2008, 8:53 am

#670619

ratbug wrote:Yeah what pete said.. Also I had trouble getting the stock engine mounts/brackets to do what I wanted to do, so I got some new ones from the auto parts store, off a commodore or something, that were better sized.

Thanks Got any pics?