Annoyingly the engine didn't come with the stock engine mounts attached (probably as was mounted in the racecar via custom mounts), but the gearbox did. After a couple of months of searching I managed to track down a pair of engine mounts at a sensible price, and set about modifiying them for use with the ubiquitous Land Rover engine mounting rubbers. I turned down some aluminium inserts to a heavy press fit, and pressed them into the engine mount bores with a hydraulic press. The press was reading 5 tonnes as they went home, so they are never coming out, under vibration or otherwise!
Then it was simply a case of tapping the centres of the inserts to M10 x 1.5 and screwing on the mount. Very happy with how they have come out.
The gearbox mounts didn't need any modification as they take an 10mm bolt as standard anyway.
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