Mopar Engine Mounts

[Trent P.]

I am working on a '39 Dodge D11. I am going to install a 360/727 combo in the stock frame, using the stock front suspension. I am waiting to order a catalog from plydo, but does anyone know of anyone else who makes motor/transmission mount to put this combo in my car? Thanks, Trent.

[techinspector1]

Trent, mounts aren't that hard to make from scratch. Set the frame at ride height and set the motor trans in the car with the carb mounting pad level front to rear and side to side. The motor/trans can be moved to the passenger side of the car as much as a couple of inches if you need clearance for the steering gear. Just remember to keep the crankshaft centerline parallel with the centerline of the car (do not angle the motor and trans in the car sideways). Get some tape, cardboard and a heavy pair of scissors and in an hour or so, you can whittle out some mounts from the cardboard that can then be transferred to steel.

[Mike P]

Richard is correct, and many of the catalog ordered mounts often require some modification to make them to work anyway.

In a few sentences, Richard expained what you need to do to make your own. The one thing I would add is to buy a pair of NEW mounts to bolt to the engine prior to starting your fabrication
of the frame perches. Chances are that if you are using the original mounts that came with the engine they are collapsed a little and when you install new mounts it will change the height of the motor slightly (which can be critical in some tight installations).

For a tranny mount, that can be as simple as a piece of channel steel of box tubing bolted across your frame rails.

I'm putting a Hemi/727 combo in my 37 Dodge pickup. Rather than try to build a tranny mount using the standard mopar mount that are normally found on 727s (which hang down pretty low), I used a Chevy tranny mount. I think the application I used was a 69 Chevelle with a 4 speed. The mount is relatively thin, and all I had to do was elongate the holes where it mounts to the tranny to get the bolts in. It sits on top of the box tubing I'm using as a rear crossmember and makes a pretty clean installation.

[Trent P.]

Thanks guys for the ideas. I would probably never have thought to do that. Sometimes you just get so involved in how to fo something that you get too technical and forget how to do it the simple way. I have no rubber mounts for my engine. Is there any way to figure out what I need without going to a parts store and having them drag out a bunch of mounts? Trent.

[techinspector1]

I suspect that a trip to any local auto parts store will secure a set of 360 motor mounts and a trans mount. To placate the counter guy, tell him the car is a '76 Plymouth Fury.