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General Category => General Discussion - Intros => Topic started by: EDNY on March 23, 2015, 06:04:34 PM

Title: Engine leveling points
Post by: EDNY on March 23, 2015, 06:04:34 PM: Getting ready to weld up my front motor mounts....real happy with the mock up...will be using existing holes in the frame. I'll share pics when I have it done.

I have a "bare" 350 block and a "bare" 700R4 in the car right now. Have oil pans on both...and the final engine going in is a 95 Camaro LT1 engine with fuel injection and 4L60E.

What points do you guys use to level the "engine"? I layed on a set of steel heads and a GM carb intake for mock up...have the carb base flat (zero degrees)...with that the tranny oil pan has a good 2-3 degree drop....feel I'm good to go?

FYI in the past I used the starter mount surface.

Ed
Title: Re: Engine leveling points
Post by: ghost28 on March 23, 2015, 06:16:37 PM: With the fuel injection it doesn't matter as much as with a carburator, but the way you have it set sounds like it should be dead on either way. Waiting for pictures when you can.
Title: Re: Engine leveling points
Post by: chopper526 on March 24, 2015, 12:37:37 PM: I was taught to level off the carburetor.
Title: Re: Engine leveling points
Post by: TFoch on March 24, 2015, 12:48:16 PM: I put the protractor on the manifold mounting surface and and shimmed the temporary mounts I made until I got a reading of 3°. Then I installed the engine and trans mounts to fit.
Title: Re: Engine leveling points
Post by: chopper526 on March 25, 2015, 09:05:28 AM: Tom, I think you just have to make sure the base of the intake manifold is the same plane as the top of the manifold where the carburetor mounts, they are not always the same.
Title: Re: Engine leveling points
Post by: chopper526 on March 25, 2015, 09:10:24 AM: Tom, maybe this will be helpful, maybe not :)

http://www.hotrodders.com/scratch-built/Chassis:_Motor_and_Transmission_Mounting
Title: Re: Engine leveling points
Post by: FATnLOW on March 25, 2015, 09:34:16 AM: Chopper,,,Some other good Topics covered in this article, Thanks for posting

http://www.hotrodders.com/scratch-built/Chassis:_Motor_and_Transmission_Mounting
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Title: Re: Engine leveling points
Post by: TFoch on March 25, 2015, 12:40:10 PM: Quote from: chopper526 on March 25, 2015, 09:05:28 AM
Tom, I think you just have to make sure the base of the intake manifold is the same plane as the top of the manifold where the carburetor mounts, they are not always the same.
Yes by setting my engine (crankshaft center line axis) to 3° my carburetor mounting flange was at 0°. Chassis was leveled before doing this.
Title: Re: Engine leveling points
Post by: chopper526 on March 25, 2015, 01:37:38 PM: Sweet ;D
Title: Re: Engine leveling points
Post by: 62131 on March 25, 2015, 06:06:00 PM: Those are some good articles, very informative
Title: Re: Engine leveling points
Post by: TFoch on March 25, 2015, 06:17:11 PM: Quote from: 62131 on March 25, 2015, 06:06:00 PM
Those are some good articles, very informative
Yes I agree great article. When I set my engine and trans, it was the first time I had done anything to that extent. Luckily I had a high school friend that runs a local Hot Rod Shop to guide me. I like to try to do as much as I can on my own. I'm happy with the way my chassis came out.
Tom