by Radowick » Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:35 pm
Lane,
Mine is not flat & straight as I look down at the vertical face of the bracket that attaches to the engine via the round stand-offs/bushings.
In your second photo, you shock body looks like it clears the top corner buy approx. 3/8 inch. That is what mine clears by. When I swapped my damper end for end though, it is the larger dia. spring that almost touches there when the car is at rest. And when I put a piece of tape over that corner and went for a ride, I came back to find that it had been scratched thru. The suspension travel and bellcrank rotation allows the damper to move closer to my mount and hit it.
If you look at your first photo, it has a very good look the mount showing that it does not attach directly to the engine. Instead, it has 3 standoffs in between the mount and the engine. The front standoff on the right is in clear view showing how skinny it is. I am at the very least going to make some fatter dia. standoffs.
Lane,
Mine is not flat & straight as I look down at the vertical face of the bracket that attaches to the engine via the round stand-offs/bushings.
In your second photo, you shock body looks like it clears the top corner buy approx. 3/8 inch. That is what mine clears by. When I swapped my damper end for end though, it is the larger dia. spring that almost touches there when the car is at rest. And when I put a piece of tape over that corner and went for a ride, I came back to find that it had been scratched thru. The suspension travel and bellcrank rotation allows the damper to move closer to my mount and hit it.
If you look at your first photo, it has a very good look the mount showing that it does not attach directly to the engine. Instead, it has 3 standoffs in between the mount and the engine. The front standoff on the right is in clear view showing how skinny it is. I am at the very least going to make some fatter dia. standoffs.