My First Build Thread, and a long time comin' Options

[skeates]

So...technically I started this restoration a month ago, but now it has a thread (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

A little history...This was my first car. I picked it up for $1200 back in high school and had it towed home with mice in the glove box and hoses going to no where in the engine compartment! My dad and I had it up and running off and on for three years before I shipped off to southern California for college. It has sat in the 'rents driveway for 5 years now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) waiting for the restoration that it deserves

Well...now that I'm edumacated and have a "real" job (and also have moved back to Northern California) my pockets are slightly deeper than in high school and the build has commenced!



So far I have stripped it to a tub, built me a rotisserie and washed off about 30 years of road grime and PO molestation. Along the way I even made a new friend! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

[ruby914]

Somehow I missed a lot of your progress. The car is looking good. I think the front mount is great.
I am currently replacing my 901 with a Suby transmission. I am looking for some sort of pitch mount replacement. There is not a lot of room at the aft firewall, about 1.5".
I thought I could make it work but the Suby pitch mount is too long.
The front mount should solve this for you.
I don't understand how we have so many conversions built with out a pitch mount and we don't see problems. Not just with breaking motor mounts but with a jerky feeling motor. At one time I felt a lot of wheel hop in a rolling 2nd gear burnout. I don't know if this could be from the motor rocking back and forth or something else? If I come up with something before I put everything back together I hope to feel some solid improvement. If not, at least I will feel everything is locked in place better.