The Continental 0-200 mount is turning out to be a much more difficult proposition than I could’ve imagined.
Several attempts to buy an already built unit have been thwarted by the recurring sabotage twins of international freight and exchange rates. Therefore I am having a go at fabricating one myself and if it doesn’t turn out as acceptable, I’ll fork out for a factory item.
If you look at the drawings, there is no information about angles or component lengths whatsoever. They give you a distance of the engine mounting plate from the firewall and an angle or two and that’s it. Apparently they assume you can just punch all this into a CAD program and it will do that for you. Well I don’t have any engineering CAD software, or knowledge, so I have made up a jig and am proceeding to make up each member using some scrap 3/4″ tube ends over a narrower piece, sliding them up and down and taping to get rough lengths, then trial fitting the cutouts and transferring them to the actual chrome-moly sections.
It’s a slow process but it’s working so I’m sticking at it. More photos coming.