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Nixonnow

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Motor mount question....
« on: October 08, 2010, 07:42:01 PM »
Ok.....this may be a dumb question, but I pulled my 455 olds and putting 454 chevy in my jet boat. Ok so the olds had Hardin motor mounts on it and I bout guardian motor mounts for the chevy and just replaced the hardin feet with the guardian feet in the existing spot where the hardins were. the question is am I going to have to redrill the stringers or is the 455 and 454 going to mount up the same? Like is one going to be longer than the other mounting up?
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Re: Re: Motor mount question....
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2010, 08:00:46 PM »
Although im not 100% sure...i had to redrill for a diff motor....im pretty sure your going to half to do the same...its going to be close though...what i had done was epoxied some wooden dowels into the holes and resined over them...then redrilled the new holes as needed...pretty easy actually
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Re: Motor mount question....
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2010, 08:03:01 PM »
Ok.....this may be a dumb question, but I pulled my 455 olds and putting 454 chevy in my jet boat. Ok so the olds had Hardin motor mounts on it and I bout guardian motor mounts for the chevy and just replaced the hardin feet with the guardian feet in the existing spot where the hardins were. the question is am I going to have to redrill the stringers or is the 455 and 454 going to mount up the same? Like is one going to be longer than the other mounting up?

The chances of that working out are about the same as my ability to fart a fresh crisp $20 bill....   :D

I would be more than a little surprised if it was even close... ;)

Plan on re drilling and re aligning virtually everything, like rigging a new boat... :thumbup:

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If i get some free time tonight at work, ill play with it and post it for everyone to see.

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Re: Motor mount question....
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2010, 08:15:26 PM »
Totally different bolt up pattern ;)
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Re: Motor mount question....
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2010, 08:35:29 AM »
Ok.....this may be a dumb question, but I pulled my 455 olds and putting 454 chevy in my jet boat. Ok so the olds had Hardin motor mounts on it and I bout guardian motor mounts for the chevy and just replaced the hardin feet with the guardian feet in the existing spot where the hardins were. the question is am I going to have to redrill the stringers or is the 455 and 454 going to mount up the same? Like is one going to be longer than the other mounting up?

Many of the vintage polished cast aluminum mounts (Hardin, Harman, Guardian etc ) were all cast in the same foundry and from the same tooling (simply had different insert "plugs" for name changes) and work with very similar crank center line to base of pan measurement . If the cast mount feet use the center spine/rib (versus the retangle type eg Glenwood) you may get lucky on the stringer hole positioning . The mounting position from Olds to BBC is very close (feet to stringers only) As you probably know there are no other bolt pattern simialrities for example on the bell hsg circle. Ironically with some work a BBF rear mount can be reworked to fit BBC  ;) Call if you need help Tom
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Re: Motor mount question....
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2010, 05:13:50 PM »
Thanks much. I'll post up with pics when I put in the boat. I guess I've got all offseason to tinker on it. Lol. I'm sure more than a handful of ppl will agree. Haha
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