One wire lock-up, 4 spd automatic w overdrive into A-body.

Treblig said

For future reference...when you heat metal to red hot it's always best not to cool it off too fast like you wrote in your post. But it is OK to run cool water, as far from the "red hot" are as possible, this will draw the heat away from the red hot section and cool the whole thing down a lot faster. I'm always temped to run the water all over the whole thing but you'd be surprised hot fast the heat will travel to the cooled area thereby cooling the whole part!! This method will save tons of time and you can get much more done a lot faster.

Same goes for a welded area.

treblig

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Sounds good. I ended up using my welding gloves a few times to get the still-hot part up under the car to see how far off it still was. It slipped and I almost branded myself once. This 1/4" plate won't even budge unless its red hot. I tried to make a small bend at one end with a big maul while the part was clamped in the vise. It would not yield.

The motor settled down nicely into its sweet-spot, once I got both bolts on the motor mount loose and pried the mounts upward from the wheel well. I put the level on the car and on the motor and the bubble landed in the same spot, so I tightened the motor mounts back up.

I'm going to pop the engine and trans back out after I make some templates to gusset the rear mount, so I can clearance the top of my notch a touch.

I still need to trouble shoot the brake lights, same thing on one side of my electric exhaust cutouts, and clean and possibly wax my 1970 'Cuda for a show this coming Sunday at the Blackhawk Museum. It's an early show first come first served for parking etc, but they are featuring Mopars that weekend.