Bakerlite said

I've had a couple of customers supply RMS front ends for their builds. One was a 67 Dart, I had to screw around with the engine mounts to get the engine to fit correctly. Was a pain in the ***..
I'm not a fan of the spindles, you'd think for the money, these guys would be making their own so you don't need a heim joint with a spacer :rolleyes: Rinky dink in my book..
The one I have here now is in a 70 Cuda and getting a KB Hemi into it. It's using shitty B body Schumacher conversion mounts, that's right B body, as recommended by RMS and the whole thing is a half arsed mess.
The mounts are the correct way around..
The conversion mounts wouldn't go into the RMS K frame correctly. I took the pad bolts out of the conversion mounts to at least see where the engine would sit. No way the bolts will line up, it sits too high and looks like it's been moved forward.
It could at least go down an inch and back the same.
To be honest, it's a bit bodgy in my book and the K frame engine mount pads could be in a better place to mount a Hemi anyway. More directly in line with the block mount would be nice, that way you don't need to have offset mounts.
It looks like he makes a B / RB bigblock K frame and you then have to use a conversion mount to drop a Hemi in there and deal with the issues that arise. Why not make a Hemi specific frame and mount. Why make a frame based around another companies "conversion" effort that puts the engine in a non stock location? What a joke..
After a chat with the customer, I'll be making new engine mounts and maybe moving the pad locations on the K frame itself.
These days, bolt on mods just seem to be bolt on problems.

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