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jgrote · 12-23-2023, 06:21 PM

Well, no pictures today, but I got the motor mounts sorted. I ended up making spacers out of PTFE. It's easy to work with and will last forever. A super cheap way to get thick pieces of PTFE is to buy a cutting board off Amazon. I had some 1" thick stuff laying around from an old project, so I used that. I "milled" it down to about .675", which gave me plenty of clearance to the center link, but allowed me to get a decent pinion angle. I'm at about 5.8 degrees. The bottom of the pan is 2 degrees back. I still have to make a trans crossmember, but it's going to be super easy.

12-23-2023, 06:21 PM	#6
jgrote Registered User Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Denver-ish Posts: 107	Re: My low(ish) budget OEM build Well, no pictures today, but I got the motor mounts sorted. I ended up making spacers out of PTFE. It's easy to work with and will last forever. A super cheap way to get thick pieces of PTFE is to buy a cutting board off Amazon. I had some 1" thick stuff laying around from an old project, so I used that. I "milled" it down to about .675", which gave me plenty of clearance to the center link, but allowed me to get a decent pinion angle. I'm at about 5.8 degrees. The bottom of the pan is 2 degrees back. I still have to make a trans crossmember, but it's going to be super easy.