Engine To Tall, Touches Bonnet

[Guest captn Pugwash]

has anyone had a problem with the engine in a exmo being to tall, using the standard engine boxes as supplied and welded to the skids, 2 lt pinto with standard mounts, The rocker cover oil cap touches the bonnet and the carb is 3/8ths of an inch from the bonnet.

 

any advice appreciated. send any images you might have to help me please

[Mat-Moo]

It sound as though the skids have not been push back far enough. The back of the gearbox should almost be touching the bodywork. Only other thing you can do is raid the nose cone, or drill out the current holding point for the engine, and mount the mounts inside the box (They do say about this on the build videos, but I've never seen anyone do it)

[Guest Greg]

Hi Dave,

the carb will be close if standard. Cut off the oil filler neck, weld it on the back end of the rocker cover, plenty of room there.

 

Greg

[brumster]

Depending on what's touching, we bought a different cam cover that had the filler at the back rather than the front - together with mounting the nosecone at whatever height we needed, we then had no problems.

[Peter Bell]

There is usually a 5mm thick heat proof spacer under the carb, taking this out will help as well.

Peter

[Guest boggie]

Hi Dave,

My money is with Matt's answer. I fitted a pinto into my exmo and there is about 10mm clear between the top of the oil filler cap and the bonnet, I just put it in and it fits fine. The bonnet is higher the further back you go so mount the engine as far back as you can - the modified propshaft is quite short so you should get away with it, no problem. If you have already bolted the sledges in place and don't want to start again you could try cutting off a little of the 'pipe' the oil cap fits into and shorten the cap accordingly.

Good luck, Boggie

[Guest djswain1]

As the "brumster" said you can play with the nosecone height. You can see from my pic that my engine is also well back in the engine bay as Matt stated.