decisions and progress

I missed about a month with work travel, house projects, vacation and trying to spend more time around the family.  In truth that is all convenient, and I was actually pretty stuck.  I didn't really want to weld the subframe mounts onto the frame.  I embarked on a journey of making really stiff bolt in mounts.  Pretty much everyone I talked to said to weld them in, but I didn't.  I completed the PS mount and did a quick FEA.  Its 1st frequency was below 20Hz.  Awful.  The DS mount was becoming very contrived.  I decided to rethink my approach.

I ordered some steel earlier this week for a house project and committed to weld in mounts and included the steel I would need for them.

Today I chopped out the old transmission mount that was in the way for this approach.  I still have some cleaning up to do, but I feel great to be moving again and in a known direction:

Still a little more clean up.  Plasma cutter paid for itself again.  I ran it at half power to avoid annihilating frame rails and fenders if I got a weird angle.

 I wonder if anyone is still reading after a month of nothing here?