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Engine mounts for 1.6 vit into 1L sierra
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:55 pm
by Aerenandmel
Ive looked but cant find any one who makes engine mounts to put a MPI 1.6L vit motor into a 1L sierra as I belive the engine mounts are different to the 1.3L mounts. Im going to get an adapter from bent and use a 1.3L gbox. My engineer said he would prefer me to see if I can go this way instead of making my own.
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:31 pm
by nicbeer
BenT adapter has the engine mount bit as well. i used BenT adapter and then used std 1.3 mounts.
Nic
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:36 pm
by Gwagensteve
I'm not aware of adapters off the shelf. I helped Christover weld up some adpaters when he went to 1.3 - he has some photos of them somewhere.
The mounts are in
very different positions.
If you are engineering the car, just cut the mounts off the chassis and weld them back in 1.6 position - no need for adapters then
that's what I would be doing.
Steve.
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:31 pm
by Aerenandmel
Gwagensteve wrote:I'm not aware of adapters off the shelf. I helped Christover weld up some adpaters when he went to 1.3 - he has some photos of them somewhere.
The mounts are in
very different positions.
If you are engineering the car, just cut the mounts off the chassis and weld them back in 1.6 position - no need for adapters then
that's what I would be doing.
Steve.
yeh, I has going to cut them off and use some 1.3L ones but its got a 4k toyota donk in it with bolt on engine mounts and my engineer said he would preferr that I do it like that if possible, but no dramas if I have to cut them out and weld new ones in
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:32 pm
by nicbeer
whoops. thought u said 1.3 chassis.
bugga
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:42 pm
by Aerenandmel
Someone just pm'd me and said the 1.3L gbox may not fit in my tunnel, I have a 2" body lift. any ong know either way.
I was going to use vitara gbox and transfer + Sierra case but it definetly does not fit in the tunnel without a lot of unwanted work, i tried
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:23 pm
by mugginsmoo
the easy way is to cut a set of 1.3 mounts off a chassis and weld them on to the 1L chassis, this is what i've done and it was a lot quicker than making new mounts.
you need to widen a 1.3L tunnel 50mm on the passengers side and 60mm on the driver side to fit a Vitara 4spd auto into a sierra without a body lift.
Mitch