Well after lots of work this weekend I got the headers in the car finally
The improved racing cooler adapter fit great, very happy with that. The Ronin engine mounts would have worked awesome and been perfect had my car been designed to work with them from the beginning or not trying to use these headers and my original drive train positioning together.
Got the new mounts in and ready to bolt up, realized the bolt holes were off by almost a inch, choices were modify the mounts or change the trans positioning, drive shaft length, shifter mounting.... the mounts were getting changed. Had to cut the passenger side upper mount's base plate off and relocate it forward, not a whole lot of work and pretty much cant tell anything was done, drivers side was another story. None of the drivers mount would work. After notching the frame for the #3 primary to clear, the lower engine mount portion hit the #1 primary tube. So i sectioned the lower mount and moved the mounting face forward, built a whole new upper mount that roughly looks like the Ronin, just not as nice looking with laser cut holes
, that is angled and notched to clear the #1 primary tube. In the end it turned out ok, just have to finish putting the car back together, change the front portion of the exhaust and weld on some v-bands. The more I look at the mount I made I think I'll take it back out and cut the holes in it to match the original Ronin one, clean it up a little more.
Still need to get the trailer ready and finish tuning the car, running out of time for the first event
