Engine in for the first time!

The first part was making up the left (looking at the car) engine mount as its a fixed mount and would provide the front to back lever point. The next part would be aligning the engine in the engine bay, which I had a few troubles with. The floor of the workshop i was using was not very level. I thought my only option was to move the project to somewhere more level but it was brought up by someone at work that i could just jack the whole car up to be made level, throw some jack stands underneath and work from there. Seems easy enough!

The engine was then rigged up to the overhead hoist. Easily placing the engine in the engine bay then hacking at the inner guards to make it all fit. I placed the engine on the subframe and started finding a suitable position. I kept moving the engine forwards and backwards trying to find good clearance from the master cylinders, oil filter adapter and where the alternator would eventually sit. After some more hacking of the subframe it was apparent that the gearbox was fouling on the rear part. I thought i had found the perfect location until i remembered that the gearbox pods had to be left on to check their clearance from the lower control arms. These wouldn't go on as my engine was too far back, and after all that messing around, this was the point i would get serious.