Looking for a pic of my 5.0 mounts installed to get an idea of header clearance for another item I may be working on.
Danke.
Do you need an in-car pic, or would it work just being on a stand?
I have HO (stock) headers and your mounts..can snap a few pics if you need. The engine is on the stand, I can put the mounts on and
grab the camera. :D
I'm just curious of mount-to-header clearance, so on a stand would be fine.
I know they get closer to some aftermarket headers, but this will give me an idea.
Chuck do you need it yet, my cars in my driveway, I can snap one quick.
I can take a picture when I get home for you Chuck. I guess mine are type 6? bought them this winter off ya.
Do I need to jack her up or will up top pictures suffice?
Pics from below would probably be the best bet.
Either post them here, or email them to me @ cwarren@indy.net
Thanks
Here's a couple with bbk's, I took a few but these seem to make sense more, I think.
Here are some pics of mine. I'm not sure what you need so I tried to take from several positions.
(http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr313/50tbrd88/DSCF1187.jpg)
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Here are some more...sorry for the piss poor quality. Its hard to get good pics of something like this! Hope this helps Chuck and just let me say again, THANKS for making these mounts. They are one of the best pieces I have bought for the car.
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one more
(http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr313/50tbrd88/DSCF1186.jpg)
Thanks for the pics guys. I'm guessing you guys have different sets of BBKs headers?
Kitz, yours look closer to the mounts than 50tbird88's.
(BTW, 50tbird88...kinda looks like you tightened the center bolt down a bit much... I'm guessing you stopped it on the center sleeve? It doesn't need to be that tight. Just enough to take out any slack in the bushing stack).
I think that gives me what I need for the time being.
Thanks!
My headers are bbk 1515 and yeah I wasn't sure on how much to tighten those center bolts.
Well I don't know what the differences are in the headers since I'm not a 5.0 guy. Loks like you have miles of clearance though.
On the bushings, too much preload isn't good for the bushings, and they usually come ready to go out of the box. If you can get in there and back then off a bit, you might do that.
Yeah I sure do have a lot of room in there with the headers I am running.
And I will loosen the top bolts up a few rounds. I initially installed them as they come out of the box but I guess I overbuttstuffyzed the situation and (wrongly) decided to tighten them down some.
Thanks Chuck.
I don't have that note in all of the instructions, but I plan on putting it in there. I have usually only included it for those that required the end user to tighten that bolt and not for those I ship assembled and ready to go.
I should try to get you pictures of mine...my FMS 1 5/8" gt40p-specific shorties are quite close to the mounts. I couldn't even use them on the stock mount after grinding the stock mount away to almost nothing on the drivers side. The passenger side was/is fine on both mounts.
Mine fit with the stock mounts. I had to dimple one tube a bit (maybe 1/8 inch or less).
I "dimpled" it but stopped as I didn't want to go any further than the huge dent I now have in that tube. I'm not sure why the difference. I spent hours cutting away and grinding the bracket down further and further until I just had to say no more. These mounts are close but work - I don't remember how close they are in relation to the dent though as it's still right in that hard area to scope out. I was using a piece of paper to check for clearance...should slide through easily was my thought on everything.
Hmm perhaps differences in production from one header to the next?
Perhaps. I will say that my high-temp powdercoat is holding up great on the headers - I didn't think it would. I'll try to get some pictures when it stops raining later this week.
Here are some pictures of my mounts that are very similar to yours that I made 6 years ago for my car. The headers are made by Headman and mounted backwards to accomodate the turbos and the clearance is very tight on my mounts but there was lots of room when I just had a standard 5.0 H.O. and the headers on normal.
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o187/fastertbird/T-bird%20Pictures/MVC-003L-4.jpg)
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(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o187/fastertbird/T-bird%20Pictures/MVC-006L-5.jpg)
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o187/fastertbird/T-bird%20Pictures/MVC-005L-6.jpg)
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o187/fastertbird/T-bird%20Pictures/MVC-004L-1.jpg)
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o187/fastertbird/T-bird%20Pictures/MVC-007L-1.jpg)
Andrew, I marvel at how clean you keep your toys!
Me too! What is that white looking Bird in the background?
When my first T-bird got rear ended I bought that white bird with intent to fix it up but is was quite rusty on the floor pans so I got the bird I have now which was in much better condition and drove the white one as a daily driver for a while. Not it is still sitting right where you see it with a bad 3.8 v-6 engine.