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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:25 am 
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Got a 3.8l 231 buick swap in my 78 luv with a borg warner 5 speed. will the trans/motor monts work for a th350 and 350 sbc? thanks

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:29 am 
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Tranny mount yes, motor mount, no. Motor mounts are easy to make though. Get the motor mounts you eant to use, I usually use the solid Moroso mounts, and get a piece of hollow round stock that your long support bolt will go through and cut it to fit in the motor mount. Bolt the motor mounts to the motor and set it in the truck. and get the motor where you want it, but leave the hoist in place. Cut some cardboard and make some templates to reach the roundstock from the frame and tranfer to some metal and cut and weld. Most machine shops will have the round stock in there leftover bin for cheap. It's kinda hard to see in the pic, but if you look behind the left side of the a frame, this is what I have on mine.

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And this really cheap look worked on another one. These bolted to the 2 holes on each side of the lower from of the block. Doing it this way left more room for headers since there was no torsion bar either.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:24 pm 
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thanks sounds like a good idea to me. what did you do to your front end? I was wanting to make mine tilt and get rid of everything under fenders and hood like the inner fenders? what did you do to yours?

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Aww...... keep the buick man!

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:28 am 
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That is a pic of a different truck that was built for the dirt drags years ago. My avatar truck still has all of that stuff.

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