has anyone here built one of these yet with the V6? it bothers me that the engine just hangs cantilevered off the bell housing with no front motor mount. I am having a hard time getting past this point, and I really want to build one.
has anyone here built one of these yet with the V6? it bothers me that the engine just hangs cantilevered off the bell housing with no front motor mount. I am having a hard time getting past this point, and I really want to build one.
I'd want at least a stay on the front of the engine, but you're grabbing it in a really strong place. My 180+ HP Hayabusa powered car has weedy little sheet metal mounts and a couple light tube weldments...
it bothers me that the engine just hangs cantilevered off the bell housing with no front motor mount.
Does it bother you that the transmission in a stock miata 'just hangs' in between the engine and diff?
That's very different from a structural standpoint, of course.
This is a very new swap, there aren't many running ones out there.
Vigo wrote: Does it bother you that the transmission in a stock miata 'just hangs' in between the engine and diff?
The C4 vette is like that too.
Maybe they should have just cast an all new block with actual longitudinal mount bosses cast into it instead of offering such half-baked nonsense. 
Is the "S3700" also running without motor mounts? I highly doubt it.
Swank Force One wrote: Is the "S3700" also running without motor mounts? I highly doubt it.
And that right there is all it would have taken for me to be interested in this swap.
In reply to Swank Force One: What transmission is that and do you have a link to the build? That is an adapter plate in there,too?
Looks like an S2000 transmission.
http://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/921992-turbo-j32a2-s2000-build-thread/
it's an s2000 transmission. I posted that pic to show SFO how the Honda guys use mounts for that swap into an s2000.
I see no meaningful difference in strength. Any engine that couldnt be supported by its entire bellhousing surface and all the large bolts therein has got bigger problems than this swap kit does.
Uncomfortable with that idea, don't look at a beetle.
DaveEstey wrote: Uncomfortable with that idea, don't look at a beetle.
Not worried about the engine as much as I am the Miata gearbox. The VW box almost has a spine running down the middle that looks like it was meant to deal with the cantilever force.
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