Where are these two bolt holes on the engine? Are they under the engine? I thought there were three bolt holes under the engine. PLease explain. Thanks. MIke
Here's some pics of my bike. Didn't design it, but it's a sweet design alright. It was actually intended for a Chinese 33cc scooter engine, but a little bird told me that the Subaru would "bolt right up". That's not entirely true, however!! The gearbox bolts right up, because it's the same one that came with the bike.... the engine has nothing supporting it, reall. The engine rests just right on the vertical part of the plate, so I just wedged part of an old belt (fake leather, at that) in between the mount plate and the clutch housing.
Anyway, here's the pics. Hopefully you can see the two separate vertical plates on the gearbox side. That's all I'm using right now. I
should drill some holes that line up with the engine bolt holes... and get a half-inch long spacer... but I don't think that's absolutely necessary with the belt wedge mount. Lucked out there.
Oh yea... the pics...
You can see the bolt holes I was referring to in the 5th picture and on. It's got a half-inch gap between the vertical plate and the engine itself. Just bend your plate half-inch sooner and/or use long enough spacers.
You can see the vertical gearbox plates in the last 2 pics. Each pic shows one vertical mount plate. There's a broken piece of metal in front of them that used to be a handle, which made picking the bike up (especially up a couple flights of stairs) particularly easy because of weight distribution. Unfortunately, the thickness of the metal around the handle where it broke was not very good at handling all that weight. Still have the handle, but I doubt I'll ever weld it back on.
And ignore the tie wire. That's just a failsafe catch. Hah...
