Jerry, true to form you are ignoring the original point. Whenever we have an engine that is not purpose built for the car/truck that we're building, we have to consider the layout of that engine in the way it's set up in the chassis. It goes without saying that the driveline angles are most critical, and no one has said anything different. The whole point is that in the original design by the OEM engineering team for the vehicle that the engine/tranny came out of, they set it at a driveline attitude that worked, and if carbureted had the carb pad very near dead level at normal driving conditions on level ground. The engineering was done, was done right, and worked for essentially all situations. Also, the driveline angles were set to ensure long, trouble free operation of the entire driveline, and granted, the factory engineers didn't start at the carb and hope for the best on the driveline. Let's not be stupid here. The point is, after getting the driveline right, they then made the carb attitude right, which is level on level ground.

To ignore that basic point is, in my opinion, questionable at best. We know that the carb performs best when level, and we know that for a specific engine it was built to perform best in the chassis it came from. Why does it not make sense to use this piece of information in mocking up the engine & tranny mounts. Assuming the engine came out of a passenger car or 2WD pickup truck, if you set the carb pad level when you then check your driveline angle you will quite likely be DONE fussing with motor & tranny mount locations, other than side to side for clearance, alignment, etc, etc.

I'm not the first person to promote this method. It's stated in virtually every book, magazine article, and how-to instruction that's been written about hot rod engine swaps. Now once again I don't expect you to agree (at least in print), I don't expect you to admit that you've ever considered the carb angle as a starting point, but it's all but second nature, and it makes good sense!

Oh, and BTW, I'm not impressed that you managed to post the picture of the Deuce, especially since it wasn't even in the post with the question you asked (attempt to change the subject, true to form again).