So, I have progressed on my Voigt installation to where I have the engine and Voigt gearbox back in the car. They are bolted together. Headers (exhaust manifold) are on (rather difficult exercise for the TTR manifold). Clutch has been bled and works (a great relief). Having the bleed line located in the engine bay makes the bleeding a breeze. I did relocate the bleed line to the firewall. Attaching the bracket to the exhaust manifold stud was impossible with the large TTR manifold - no room for the bracket to attach to the stud. Picture shows where I located the bleed line.
As I went to attach the engine motor mounts to the frame I found that I need to move everything (engine/gearbox) back another 1/2 inch or so. My first thought was that my bracket arrangement might be somewhat off. But, regardless, there is only another (maybe) 1/2" for the gearbox mount to move back before hitting the tunnel frame. This appears to be the same issue that Steve encountered, even using the supplied Voigt bracket.
So, I guess I will have to follow what Steve did (see below) and see if I can get everything to fit in.
It's too bad that things have to be moved back further as the gear lever is now reasonably centered in the console, as is. It will apparently end up (like Steve's) further back, up against the opening, after shifting it back.
steve lyle wrote:Today I got (most) all of the under-the-car work done.
The transmission mount was more work. Per the instructions it was on loosely. There were a couple of interference issues or potential issues - the casing of the rubber mount itself was resting against the transmission tunnel. Reversing the mount and some judicious grinding of the tunnel "ledge" gave me about 1/16" clearance.
But first I had to get the mount off - and I couldn't get the nylocs at the end of the two long bolts off, because I couldn't get a wrench on the bolt heads - even with dropping the tranny as much as possible. I ended up using an impact wrench and putting enough side load on the bolts that it would do the job.
To make the job easier for the any future removals, I MIGed the bolt heads to the steel casing of the rubber mount. Not pretty, but effective, and made the job of removing/installing the mount assembly much easier.
The next interference issue was with the spacer and the brake line. I rounded off one corner of the spacer with a grinder, and levered the tranny tail a bit to the right when I put the mount/crossmember on, and that gave me plenty of clearance there, about 1/8" or a tad more.
Lots of test fits, fiddling (grinding, filing, etc) and trips between crawling under the car and going to the bench, but eventually I was happy with the results.