Don?t move the rack unless you are prepared to either do a lot of engineering
or to drive a car that steers itself?generally in the wrong direction. You?ll
get lots of bump steer. the car probably has all it needs already. Much easier,
and generally better, to move the engine back and maybe down a bit. You?ll need
a shorter driveshaft, and none of the stock engine and transmission mounts will
work, but that?s easy to fix and the weight bias will be much better.
Bill
> On Feb 19, 2017, at 9:32 PM, Andrew Packard via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> wrote:
>
> Hi FOT'ers
>
> We lowered the GT6+ engine with TR6 tranny into the TR4 this weekend, quickly
> discovering the steering rack position needing to go forward and the need for
> an engine mount solution. I turned to Tony Vigliotti at Rat-co for advice
> and provided pics to him. I'm looking forward to his response and guidance
> as Tony has always been extremely generous with his time and advice.
>
> I also wanted to reach out to this group to understand if anyone had made
> this swap and what their solution was for the fitting issues. I'm thinking
> we could just weld in an added cross member and move the steering rack mounts
> forward by attaching to this new piece. For the engine mounts, I have no
> idea what the stock mounts are in a TR4 so I don't know if fabrication or
> stock parts solutions are needed to secure the engine. Any specific examples
> of your solutions are appreciated. Please remember this is a 24 hours of
> Lemons project and we are looking for an extremely cheap and DIY solution.
>
> Andy Packard
> Bay Area CA
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