had a question on mounting my ls1 motor. im gonna be redoing my rear cage and was wondering can i bring the tubes off the back of the trailing arm housing straight back or do i need to angle them up? seen it done both ways was just wondering what works best. also if i do have to angle them up what degess do they need to be bent at?

You can do whatever you want. The only thing you must do is be sure the tubes are below the lowest point of the engine to protect it in the event you botom out. And of course to yourself a favor and install a skid plate because just tubing is not going to help much.

The engine should be installed first for mock-up purposes, I assume trans is mounted already??? If so this will dictate where you lowest point of the motor will be when installed. Keep at least 1" between skid plate and oil pan, and remember, bottoming the cage breaks cars and people!!!! Even in sand!!!!! LOL

Check ground clearance at full compression.

had a friend break his back in his car because of this. older sand limo car. rear cage bottomed out hard off a big jump.

great info guys trans not installed yet i will definatly put a skid plate on and was gonna check ground clearence for sure. dont need to break the car or me lol. i had figured that it being bent up was for ground clearence. since i dont have trans yet do you think i could still mock it up? im gonna be using a fields 3 speed auto can i just get measurements from trans to do mock up? sorry alot to throw at you guys doing this on a slight learning curve and wanna do it right appreciate the help

wait until you have the transaxle. the rear cage is relatively easy and dose not take long to construct. But if you do it before you get the trans, when you get the trans and you find out that it dose not fit right then the job just got harder.

ok will do thanks for input. i was gonna just run the two bars straight out and leave em and start the top part of the engine cage. im gonna make the rear part of the cage removable to get the motor in and out easier.

Leave the tubes that run from the torsion housing to the back of the car straight and about 4' long, then when you have the trans, definitely get one, or Fields has a mock-up trans that you can borrow to set up your mounts, those trans's are long so wait and do it all right and together, you can tip the motor to 10 degrees if you have to, but between 5 and 8 degrees should give you good ground clearance.

All sounds good thank u for all your words of wisdom