ballpark price for fabbing up some motor mounts...

[george graves]

What is ballpark for a guy with a welder to swing by a house and fab up some mounts? The motor would be positioned, and ready to go....

What is a fair price?

Anyone maby know what this kind of work usually goes for?

[modifiede30]

What are you trying to accomplish with these motor mounts that can't be done with stock mounts? Are you talking solid mounts?

[Brew]

What are you trying to accomplish with these motor mounts that can't be done with stock mounts? Are you talking solid mounts?

I would guess they would be for his m30 swap. ;)

[modifiede30]

In that case, I'd model them, maybe with stryofoam, and send it off to someone. I wouldn't expect a machinist to be able to do something like that as a house call. Do the engine mounting brackets line up with the mount points on the chasis?

[E30/M30]

Do you want me to do you some more picture's and measurement's of these E30.de engine mount's ?

[rs4pro3]

If you can take very detailed drawings, measurements of all the angles and what not. I can do auto cad drawings that you can just take to any machine shop and have them build the mounts.

[rs4pro3]

On another note, for most of my Engineering design projects we ussualy factor in $0.30 per foot of weld used, but then there is material cost and the cost of the welder driving out. I'd Print out those pictures, and take them in to a welding shop wo see how much ruffly they would charge.

[george graves]

Yes - more pics would be awesome - if you know a 2 or 3 year engineering student that wantes to make some money, let me know - I'd be willing to pay a little for a accurate isometric drawings...

[Jand3rson]

Yes - more pics would be awesome - if you know a 2 or 3 year engineering student that wantes to make some money, let me know - I'd be willing to pay a little for a accurate isometric drawings...

Get in touch with NitroRustlerDriver (Andrew) here on the forum. He's my brother in law, and if you were to get a hold of a set and mail them to him, he could probably do some 3D models in AutoDesk.

[george graves]

hehehehe - if I could get a hold of a set I could do it myself...

I ordered them from germany - waited 2 months - and then was told they were lost in the mail....

[rs4pro3]

I'm starting my third year in Engineering in April, Major in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing. So I can do the drawings no problem.

[Nate325ic]

that would be awesome if someone could make some schematics of these mounts, probably a hell of a lot cheaper having a machine shop make them than trying to get them from germany :up:

[AndrewBird]

Heh, I will be going into Junior year of highschool and could draw those up and build them if I had measurments. They really are simple.

Andrew

[rs4pro3]

Hum, I could maybe even design some on my own. Since I have an m30 engine in the garage and a parts car in the driveway with an empty engine bay. Maybe tommorow I'll look into cutting the engine bay off the parts car and moving it into the garage.

[george graves]

Then go to homo-depot and get some 1/4 or maby 3/8 inch plywood and build a mock up of the mounts out of that...