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Yesterday a friend said that a friend of his is a metal fabricator, has a CNC machine etc, and can probably come over and make mounts when my engine arrives. I have a new set of Birkin mounts to fit a Zetec engine so I have a start at the frame side. I'll level the car up on jack stands, mount the exhaust manifold and level the engine, that should give us a start.

Sorry to take so long to get back to you about your engine mounts, do you still have them? I'd like to buy them, they might not fit exactly as found but could well serve once modified.

Have you located these mounts? They are more like what I think might work or be more easily modified to fit my application. I am more than willing to make it worth your while to find them.

I can see that these will not work for my car, thank-you for the photos.

Thank-you! I wish Jimmy had retained the mounts when he sold the X-flow that was originally in the car! Who knew it would be so difficult to find motor mounts?

Nevertheless, those mounts might make the basis of mounts I could modify to work with my Birkin. Might they be for sale?

Thanks, I see that now. Chasing down the proper mounts has been like the quest for the holy grail. The originals from my Birkin were sent with the buyer of the Kent engine, even though that engine wasn't going into a Birkin. Tom Carlin doesn't have the drawings for the Kent motor mounts so he can't make them.

Did the buyer of your 1700 engine put it in a Birkin? If not do you think he might still have these mounts? These would probably be the mounts I need to put my 1700 engine in my Birkin.

Hello Pethier, any luck finding those engine mounts? We had a little snow here today but the weather guessers are saying it'll be warming up pretty soon, I'll be getting back to the car very soon.

It can wait, those pitchforks don't sound like fun!

If you have them I'd like to take a chance on being able to use them as is or being able to modify to fit. If you can find them and want to sell them please let me know. Thanks!

Do you still have those mounts? They look like what I need. If you have them I'd like to buy them.

I just read their posts about the car, for the miles it's done it is very clean! Now if I can just get the Birkin motor mounts! The engine is coming along very well, it's getting all the right parts and machine shop work, meticulously built. Chris De Minco is building the engine.

Any chance these are for sale? I'm having no luck finding mounts to fit the Kent engine I'm getting, these look close to what I need.

Sold, I bought it. I'm having a Ford Kent crossflow 1700 built for it. It's going to be a very good car to drive on the twisty hilly two lane roads of New Hampshire.

I had forgotten this episode, thanks Outbound! So with the 1700 Kent engine my Birkin will be the easier to drive Caterham 620 R. Unfortunately I won't be driving it until next spring.

My 79 year old body will have to find a way to deal with a Birkin S3 next spring. It will have a Kent engine, which is being built now. I have 113,000 miles on my '16 MX-5 Sport, which will seem like a barge next to the 7. Spectators will get a laugh watching me attempt to get out of the 7, good thing it has the roll bar to help me out. The Miata is a great car for the New Hampshire backroads where I live, I expect the 7 will be even better. But I think I'll be keeping the MX-5, it's got snow tires. I checked through Throttlehouse vids, didn't find the Caterham video.

I am aware of that. I'm going to hold off on buying those mounts from you, it's going to be a few months before I get the engine, I'll try to get the proper mounts in the meantime.

Thank-you! I will try contacting him again. He didn't have Kent mounts in stock, recommended I build my own?

Would you consider selling those Zetec mounts? Or would your Kent buyer sell those mounts?

I tried texting to this, no reply. Thank-you.

I just sent another message to Birkin Direct USA about the Kent motor mounts for my 1999 Birkin S3. They still haven't responded to my message from 1 August. I hope they are still in business.

Yes, Jimmy Hilton bought it, I bought it from him. I will have a warmish 1700 Kent engine built for it, I intend it to have an aluminum cross flow head. I do need to find original Birkin Kent motor mounts, but I have time, the engine won't be ready until December, working in an unheated New Hampshire garage in the dead of winter is not my cup of tea, the car won't be on the road until the salt is washed off the roads in late April. I just found that the front hubs are aluminum, cool.

It was in East Texas since 2012, had only been autocrossed etc before then, I don't think it's ever been registered for the road. All the canvas is in excellent condition, the car doesn't look as if it has a lot of miles on it, it isn't showing signs of having been out in the weather, there's no rust.

I like CO2 for penetration in thicker materials. I have an electronic shield, HF table bandsaw, grinders, etc. Back when I was doing XK-Es I had a tank of "tri-gas", it worked great on stainless steel and also thinner carbon steel. The local welding gas supplier won't fill my larger tanks, rendering them useless. It's a scam. But I hope to find the proper Birkin?Kent motor mounts, that would solve the issues.