Motor mount bracket... DONE! Harder then I thought.

[DannyboyUpstate]

ALH into a MkII Jetta Coupe rear motor mount...

Thanks to the dew:

 

[CaNauBis]

Hi, very good motor mount, i have this problem because i put a gt17vb on my mkII and I had to cut and weld the mount of aluminum and he broke twice now wanted to make a steel.

 

[KROUT]

It would not have been so hard if you replace that dew with some beer. lol

 

[G60ING]

I can't see the pictures here at work, but congrats, I gurantee you will love the car when its done!

 

[G60ING]

Why not clock the turbo and have it point up instead of down? Then you could build a stronger bracket. Just my thoughts after seeing the pics. If you have a plan then continue on. The mount looks good except I hope its strong enough.

 

[Spulen81]

Looks beefy! You might want to go with a MK3 rear mount, the mk2 hydro mount kinda sucks. You can alwas just drill another whole in your bracket though. At this point it wouldn't be hard to swap the subframe, and they are usually super cheap to free.

 

[G60ING]

yeah use the mk3 mount its a much better motormount design.

Here is something to avoid:

 

[DannyboyUpstate]

HAHAHA... yeah, that's EXACTLY what I was trying to avoid. We hacked the OEM mount up just to fit it up and there wast so little left of it... it was a recipe for disaster. This is made out of 3/8" steel plate. I think it's going to work out alright. I wanted something that was semi-quick because who knows if the VNT 15 will be adequate early on...

 

[ryanp]

anyone got a pic of the mk3 rear mount? i have the option of both!

Will the mk3 mount fit a std. alh engine?

cheers

 

[DannyboyUpstate]

The MkIII mount looks mostly like the the aluminum one that G60ING posted most recently.

The MkIII mount WILL fit the block of the ALH engine. It however, will NOT clear the VNT15 turbo. Not sure about other styles of turbos, but not likely either.