I might have come across a few sets across of these.

These are the solution to retaining stock style mounts when installing an iron block into your 1st generation CTS-V. The best way to get a hold of me is to text at 724-420-7785.

Why do you need these?

The aluminum blocks that are stock in our cars have six motor mount holes, and both sides use this mount setup. The iron blocks only have 4 holes, making the stock upper plates useless for the aluminum to iron swap.

What will I need to do to use these?

First, get them from me, and I will send them to your home anywhere in the continental USA for the price listed above, shipped.

Second, take your mount (I recommend contacting Jordan Chapin at Creative Steel Inc. for a set of his mounts) and shove the threads up into the hole. Take a measurement. YOU WILL NEED TO CUT THE TOP THREADS. There's room for days in the stock application, but it will bottom out in this design. I COULD have them notched out, but I would rather not. You will lose more strength with the backing plate of the material than you would cutting the thread. Not wise.

Third. Either mark on the steel plate where the dowel is (located in the red circle on the sample image of the black Creative Steel mount) and drill it out. Alternatively (and my suggestion) is to cut the dowel off.

A few helpful tips:

Buy a stubby 13/16 wrench, it makes tightening the nut on the top of the mount in the car a billion times easier.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sxt-993026 - a mere 6 dollars.

Keep everything loose until it's all installed, then tighten them up.

Keep something to help elongate holes near. Nobody has had to do it yet, but, in order to make sure these work for everyone, the holes are made with a relatively tight tolerance in respect to the dimensions of the block. Why? It's easier for someone to remove metal as needed, than it is for someone to fill it full of weld and redrill it entirely.

Buy some M10x1.5 bolts from your local hardware store or Advance Auto Parts. Fresher bolts are always better, and a smaller bolt is easier to install into the cove that contains the motor mount thread.

 

Got 3 more handsome sets in last night.

 

I have a bunch leftover right now. Anyone need any?

 

Price shipped?

 

115 in the USA

 

Id like to someday, but now is not the time for me.

 

i'm gonna throw this to the top, almost 2 years later.

anyone need any?

 

They are nice.

Thanks for taking the time to make them!

-Byron