Engine fitting

Now time for the big moment, getting the engine in, with the aid of a hoist borrowed from my mate Paul, me and dad set to work, the new engine mounts were bolted onto the engine before it was dropped in, and the rubber mounts were then attached to the mounts, now from reading a few other peoples build diarys, it appears that westfield have not yet managed to the passenger side mounting holes on the correct place, so i did not bolt the mount to the chassis on the passenger side as i would need to re-drill the holes. also when then engine had been settled in, the rear gearbox rubber mounts needs holes drilling into the chassis, so a layer of masking tape was applied to the bracket in the chassis to show me where the holes needed to be drilled.

the engine was then hoisted up and moved into pace over the chassis, with a bit of care it made it into position first time with no real issues, then still being supported by the hoist it was time to see how well things lined up. well i wasnt surprised to see that westfield were still not able to get the position of the passenger engine mount correct, so this would have to be re-drilled into a new position, the bracket was lined up with the rubbr mount and g-clamped into position, so that i could drill it when the engine is with-drawn to allow me the room to drill the gearbox mounts. the engine was then pulled back and all holes were drilled off. now a few other people have tried to position the engine over to one side to help clearance in the propshaft tunnel, but looking at it with mine, i decided to try and mount every thing fairly central, as the clearance on the gearbox to the chassis is a bit close on both sides. the engine was then dropped in and finally bolted into place.