Engine mounts are usually a pretty boring affair on most cars and trucks, but on a hot rod or street rod they tend to be pretty visible so it isn’t uncommon to see something better looking. Seeing them made of billet or tubing or something a bit more pleasing to the eye than the typical engine mounts found in a Mustang isn’t uncommon. But most come from some catalog or another and if you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all. If something is truly unique then it is probably custom machined or cast on a really high end build, so when I saw this one here I thought it was a pretty cool project and very creative. It’s a different take on how to build an engine mount that looks like this.
The way they are built would absolutely work on other engines, besides the one in this boat-tail build, and I like the way simple tools can be used to make something that looks like a custom old piece. This one is proof that a welder and a grinder can make really cool stuff, because that is all that was used to make these. Simple, clean, and clearly not something off the shelf. I like it.
This young man does some really good work. He does some great videos on Youtube. He has this Mini boat tail speedster almost done.
Very creative, a nice looking part, and thank-you for speeding the video up. I once suggested to the owner of an antique Packard that we could make a decent replacement for his damaged cast hood ornament with basically the same piece-together/weld/grind methods but he acted like I was crazy. No, just do it like that with a little time and care and it might come out pretty good, some things just take an arts-and-crafts approach not rocket science. Plan on some time though.
The shown frame mounts that stress into the middle of a flat area on relatively-thin-wall rect. tube (can be told from the corner radius) might give some trouble later.