I've built alot of cars but this one is the first tube chassis car with motor plates so i just wanted to make sure this info is the proper way to do this.

I'll be mocking up my block this weekend so i can put my motor plates/steering in the car and i talked to a buddy that told me the best way to get the motor angle is to run a string through the main caps at the crank center line all the way back to the rear pinion yoke. Then when the string is in the same plane through the caps thats the angle i will want to mount the motor.

Is this correct?

I've done a search and found alot about pinion angle on here but not much on the motor angle,but some of what i found says you dont want the crank center line to be perfectly in line with the rear yoke up&down??? i'm a wee bit.

thanks for any input

BG