With the engine side of the brackets sorted I took advantage that the kit manufacturer did gearbox brackets. The saved me that job at least.

Shockingly I have no photos of them. The best I can manage is this which shows my attempt at seeing if a rod change might work.

Anyway, with the gearbox in place and the engine centralised in the engine bay with the sump level with the bottom of the chassis I could think about the chassis side brackets.

First off I measured the distance between the bracket and the top of the chassis. Then I removed the engine, measured that far down the horizontal mount locations, then added the thickness of the rubber bushes + 3mm. I clamped a piece of angle in place, drilled through and bolted it up.

This now left me an angled plate a set distance from the bracket.

Then use of special tool #2342

Then drill the hole and trial fit with the bush.

Hmm, not much metal at the end there….

Fear not more metal welded in and we end up with a bracket looking something like this.

To which the mounts fit like this

The tiny 6mm holes I’d drilled for temp location were then drilled out to 10.5mm with M10 weld nuts fitted to the brackets and extra bracing welded on too (no photos again of that, sorry).