[Mick O'Malley]

Talking of dangerously suspending engines, in the 60s, a schoolfriend had a 105E for which he'd bought a 1500 GT Cortina lump. For the swap we opened wide his dad's wooden garage doors, wedged underneath them and rested a bit of 4x2 across their tops to take the Haltrac. It just about did the job, but the creaks and groans from the warping doors were very worrying. Happy Days .

Back to the Phaeton. The guy from whom I'd bought the engine gave me a stack of associated bits and pieces including the front cross member from the donor. It had the rack and anti-roll bar attached - a clever piece of engineering. They didn't offer much resistance to being removed and I could then rest the remains across the frame rails in the engine bay.



I'm fairly certain that, once the existing mountings have been excised (I'll enjoy that!) I can suitably modify the cross member (after cutting off the redundant brackets) and get it welded to the frame.

Regards, Mick