Episode 6: Custom-made Motor Mounts with Hollywood Hot Rods fabricator Kyle Cannole

In this video, Hollywood Hot Rods fabricator Kyle Cannole creates custom-made motor mounts for the 2012 Street Rodder Road Tour vehicle. He uses a Miller TIG welder to weld up the motor mounts and also cuts out some of the flooring to make room for the transmission using the Spectrum® 375 X-TREME™ Plasma Cutter.
Like this video? Watch episodes 4, 5 and 7 in the series for more how-to videos captured as part of this build progression.

[@x-man5056]

Nice work. Good video.

[@THESkiViking]

Those welds and corners look amazing. Very nice work!

[@chriswf]

Is this basically how all motor mounts are made? This looks pretty easy.
How do you know how to align /center the engine? Do you just eye ball it? or do you center a pulley with the exact middle front of the car?
How do you do this with FWD transaxle engines?

[@stringsbytoby]

Nice looking welds, but I think I would have tacked it together while it was mocked up, and then taken it to the bench to finish the job. Tacking it on the bench would require multiple trips back and forth if you didn't get lucky the first time.

[@jameslmoore]

What thickness steel was used to make the motor mounts?

[@deanbrevis2140]

how did you get the centre of the holes for mounting? Im currently struggling to find the centre as I'm new to fabrication and had to redo a couple of pieces and pretty much fed up with incorrect centres😢

[@MillerWelders]

Thanks for your question, Dean. You can use circle templates (available from an art supply store), working out from the center, or a circle compass to draw accurate circles from your center point.

[@dennisswartz4321]

go from matching reference holes in the frame to center line but most engines set farther to the pass side to allow more foot room for the driver not by much probable 1/2 inch think of it this way its yours you can make it how you want it

[@BRENDAJASON1]

Does it cause vibracin in the car from the motor without rubber between the motor mounts

[@chriswf]

+BRENDAJASON1 I want to know this too.
But maybe they have a well tuned v8? So they don't mind? I'm not sure.
I know that some newer v6 and v8 engines are so smooth - that they're smoother than 4 cylinders that are using motor mounts.

[@Willtrundle]

If you look they have a urethane bushing where the mount connection. That should stop a bit of the vibration.

[@trevintaylorthe6_7veganttucke]

IS this in Hollywood Fl.?

[@MillerWelders]

Hi, Trevin. Hollywood Hot Rods is based in Burbank, CA. Thank you.

[@FreeeeBeer]

That engine mount looked flimsy and easy to twist or bend. The gauge metal he used looked too thin.

[@imlesx.x.xnowmedia7080]

Movie name?? -_- ^_^