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...and that he thinks men with beard look more professional

All we know is: he's called The Greg

johu wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:54 pm ...and that he thinks men with beard look more professional

All we know is: he's called The Greg

I laughed so hard at this my wife heard me upstairs, thanks, this just made my day!

let's take a look at some pics of the "bell housing" rubber mount and the temporary rigid radiator core support bracket



yes I am a sh!ety fabricator but also everything is cattywampus on this car


I later remade the one below:

Some people cut corners, I like to round all my corners

this is the same "Bell Housing" bracket, it's where originally the engine would mate with the transmission, I think if I ever re make it, I will cut the big plate to be the exact profile of the bell housing clam shell



had to cut out an opening for the CV axle obviously, and had Ray Charles weld that up for me, [ahem] with his feet !

It’s in! It looks like you centred the drive unit. I would but the vw axles back in and set the diff between them, then no custome length axles. Then you can take the Toyota cv joints and make flanges like so

Bratitude wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:48 pm It’s in! It looks like you centred the drive unit. I would but the vw axles back in and set the diff between them, then no custome length axles. Then you can take the Toyota cv joints and make flanges like soIMG_2135.jpeg

do you have more info on this please ? a linky link perhaps

Is that square tube clear of the inner c/v?

Ev8 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:55 pm Is that square tube clear of the inner c/v?

as my old co worker used to say: "Few problems, nothing minor!"


that thing aint supposed to spin, is it?

Gregski wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:53 pm do you have more info on this please ? a linky link perhaps

Just some simple machining and welding.

you take the Toyota cv joint/stub and cut it down, turn it round on the lathe. then make a flange with the 100mm bolt pattern that the vw cv joints have, and press that on to the turned down Toyota stub. Then get it tig welded.

Heck you could use the old flanges off the vw trans axle, as you already have them!



now you have a stub flange with the Toyota splines and the vw cv joint bolt pattern.

Now your stock vw cv axles bolt up to the Prius trans axle.

The tension mounts at Good Enuff Garage, will The Greg get the motor mounted before some randomly set arbitrary deadline, or will he loose the shop ???





we (my son and I) used the blue tape to indent the head bolts into it to give us a point of reference for drilling the holes

the plate had to be set back far enuff to clear the mechanical oil pump which sticks out, out of the transaxles butt

after seeing how much steel spacers actually cost I decided to cut my own, (so I went out and bought a $200 dollar chop saw - I'll show them)


here's a look at the spacers, spacering:

tack welded into place

I could have just welded the bars to the stock Prius bracket, but that would have made it much harder to assembly and disassemble, plus it may have melted the rubber bushing, so I made a plate instead

The Sandwich Design

some people cut corners, I prefer to round mine


"Look at those perfect welds" said no one on the Internet ever!

oh, and this is the sh!iet I'm dealing with when I say cattywampus

take a closer look at that smaller bracket see how it's thicker on one end than the other

YATMV - Yet Another Transmission Mount Video

Gregski wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:18 pm YATMV - Yet Another Transmission Mount Video

do you actual sleep or goto work? you seem to have accomplished more in weeks that many of of us do in months

Over here at sketchy enough garage I'd probably skip the rear mount Audi only has the rear mount

johu wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:17 pm Over here at sketchy enough garage I'd probably skip the rear mount Audi only has the rear mount

hee hee, keep this up and you'll find yourself heavily recruited by GnG !

rstevens81 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:10 pm do you actual sleep or goto work? you seem to have accomplished more in weeks that many of of us do in months

just wanted to share some in progress pics from my CNC machine, or as we like to call it, See and See over here at Good Enuff Garage


one man's rusty stick is another man's perfect straight edge


here we are getting ready to lazer cut a complicated curvature for the cooling hoses

the Greg is known for his free hand swirlies

some glamour shots of the front motor mount

and here she is all trimmed down and installed, some day she may even see sum paint

Dang look at that! It's even got speed holes. Nice work.

a bit of an overlap with the I just bought a Mitsubishi Outlander charger. - Now What? thread, but I wouldn't want to rob you of this cinematic experience: