motor plates?

[BadBowtie]

I have seen in a few post people talking about using front motor plates instead of motor mounts. What are motor plates?

[IceQueen]

motor plates are just a thick pice of steerl that bolts to the engine, and the mounts bolt to the plate. it has groved holes on it were the engine mounts so that you can move it back or forth by a couple of inches to get a nice fit. these can cause the engine to sit a bit higher or may cause the eye holes to not line up on the mounts. I choose to use regular v8 mounts there more heavy ther the 2.8\'s and allow less engine flex. I dropped my motor in drilled & tapped new bolt holes and welding the frame mounts down to the frame. I like overkill lol but thats just me!

[link523]

they bolt to the front of the motor and to the

frame www.cachassisworks.com you can see them there

[IceQueen]

oh did you mean the plate you nmount to the front and back of the motor then weld to the frame? those IMO are complete crap they dont allow for any motor flex and force the motor to vibrate the whole chassis they also reduce airflow around the engine there a complete waste of money IMO why anyone would want to bolt in a motor like that is beyond me!

[BadBowtie]

Dont worry Ice Queen, I have no intenton of using anything like that. I just wanted to know more about them, cause i dont know anyting about them, and knowledge is good!

[IceQueen]

its actualy funny but the primary reason these plates were invented was not to support the motor but because of the design of a certain really old ford race car it used inner walls similar to the structure an air plane uses to add strength to the external shell of a body they simply cut into the plates so that the motor could bolt into the car they also made the plates thicker to support the motors weight since the car didn\'t have enough structure to bolt the motor mounts to... for some reason people still use this tech even thow its severly out of date and reaks havec with most modern engines.