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Originally Posted by 6D6GOAT
Look like there is plenty of room behind my drivers side head. i already started to weld up the bracket that bolts to the head. I ll post a pic of it later.
I have an idea to use sway bar stabilizer bushings to help take some of the shock out of the setup when the slack in the chain is taken up at WOT.
any thoughts?
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Just that it seems (to me anyway) your over engineering it, The mounts are going to give you the elasticity, and the torque restraint (whichever one you decide on) stops the mount from breaking due to twisting too far. You already have the isolation from the mounts for vibration etc., the torque restraint is only going to be in use a very small percentage of run time and isolation isn't really needed. It's your car, you do what pleases you. I'd put a turnbuckle on it and call it done.
If anyone wanted to take the time to do it ideally a strut that could have some pre-load adjusted into it and to tie both cylinder heads together and the a mounting point of the left side to tie the torque restraint to secure the torque restraint to the frame. The Pontiac engine is trying to push the cylinder banks apart while splitting the block. Tying the heads together would help with this force while providing a fixture to equalize the twisting force on both cylinder banks, but that's a lot of work, although it may help block longevity down the road, who knows?