Help me find or design a less destructible motor mount

Mr_Asa said:

Ranger50 said:

Why can't you upgrade to a 96 MY mount?

Because no one told me they existed.  I want to smack the people at FordSix

I always look to newer model years of the same chassis for solutions.

W211 E55 use hydraulic mounts. When you molest the engine even a little, they go from being a replace-at-35kmiles to replace-every-other-oilchange. Which gets tedious. I bought a set of oem mounts that had the oil replaced with urethane, iirc by way of renntech or something. The upside is that I don't have to replace mounts anymore. The downside is that at idle, the car is juuuust a little bit nascar. Since I'm kinda an idiot this doesn't bother me none. I bet your current mounts could get urethane filled for *cheap*..

I am very very happy with these.  Gonna tack 'em and bolt 'em to a block to make sure everything is good.

As I mentioned, I got my TIG welder.  So now I'm looking around for stuff to weld.

Dug out the bits, dug out the welder.  Started working.  Stopped working cause it started raining.
Stupid rain.

You would have been well served to bevel where the welds will be for better penetration.

Honsch said:

You would have been well served to bevel where the welds will be for better penetration.

I did.  Not a huge amount, but I did.
There aren't any true butt welds on here, at least not for strength.  It'll all be tee welds or corner welds, so I'm not 100% worried about penetration at this stage.

Other than what's in the last pic, its all just tack welds so I can get it all in place. 

In reply to Honsch :

With all the tabs and slots I see in that, I think a bit of bubble gum would hold!