It began by removing the whole front half of the subframe from the two main towers forward. One thing you have to consider later is putting the tie rod mounts back in their original position. The next step for me was making the main two side spars that surround the engine as well as provide positions for the engine mounts. These were found at a fabricators workshop, he had lying around. The pipe used is 33.7mm OD 3mm thick walled 90 degree sweeping bends. Lucky for me they had enough length on either side of the bend. This is the same pipe we have all around the workshop which we use for oil piping at our power stations. The spars were then joined to a plate that mounts to the existing shell mounts. For this i decided to cut a slot in the pipe wide enough for the plate, then cut and weld once in the right position. I think this option looks fairly clean and pretty structurally strong. There was then a front spar to join together the sides, sort of like a box. When joining them all together there was a few ways of doing this. I took a different route than most, by tack welding all the pieces together in the actual engine bay, rather than using a JIG. I did make a jig before all of this but wasn't happy with its overall build. I think I had rushed it.
But this is what is what you get:
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