I got the motor in my Canadian 55 Pontiac which is sort of a Pontiac body on a chevy frame. Was going to use a set of mounts from a 77 Pontiac and just weld a plate under them, gusset the whole 9 yards. But when I mocked it up it looked so butchered, clumsy, bulky and just plain ugly.
So I took the mount off and was figuring on making a plate with ears, bolting it to the first 2 lower engine mount holes and running a 2x2 off the frame to tie into it. Well my neighbor was over and he expressed concern about my not bring the top bolt on the engine into play. He figured the motor may break or crack under torque just using the lower 2 bolts especially that close to the pan rail. So I said how about it I used all 4 bolt holes. He figured I still might have problems and he would definitely incorporate the top hole into the mount design.
Any thoughts on this? Adding the 3rd bolt into the mount is going to be tough but if I have to do it I will. Prefer not to. Alan
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