{"id":16279,"date":"2012-05-26T23:30:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T21:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/2012\/05\/26\/the-engine-mounts\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T23:04:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T22:04:16","slug":"the-engine-mounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/en\/2012\/05\/26\/the-engine-mounts\/","title":{"rendered":"The engine mounts &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another difficult birth. Nevertheless, the choice on the market in available engine mounts for the S14 is fairly large.<\/p>\n<p>But we were once again tempted to go and get the mustard from Delage in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-6199 .fg-image { width: 150px; }\n#foogallery-gallery-6199 { --fg-gutter: 10px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-default foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-default fg-ready fg-light fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-6199\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0356.jpg\" 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class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We had a set of Ron at our disposal, who was kind enough to lend us those supports for a while. The intention was to reproduce the cast supports from a solid block AL7075.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, those things are turned in almost every plane and it was quite a job to measure them correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there are skilled professionals, such as at C-MEC in Kortrijk who can flawlessly transform this into a set of coordinates.<\/p>\n<p>Result: again hours of drawing work for Nick who, as usual, assigns the perfect files as fodder for the CNC machine.<\/p>\n<p>Only downside: the production costs.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of milling work on + we have to start from a fairly large block AL7075 which does not really make this solution as a worthy alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Ger had thought much better and under the motto &#8220;keep it simple&#8221; he had made the supports from chrome molybdenum steel. Super strong and much cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story, sometimes it is not always wise to want to make everything yourself \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another difficult birth. Nevertheless, the choice on the market in available engine mounts for the S14 is fairly large. 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