Since I'm playing around with making my own engine mount, I looked carefully at the engine mount in your CAD drawing. I have a couple of questions.

1) Did you do a finite element analysis on the mount you have drawn?

2) I don't see anything aside from the one C channel supporting the engine. I don't understand how this would be able to react the loads.

I'm in the middle of modeling the standard RV-7 Lycoming Dynafocal mount so I can do FEA to determine what g loads it will withstand and what it's vibrational modes are. When I finish "reverse engineering" the standard mount, I'll design my own RX-8 mount to withstand the same loads.

Any clue what sort of loads one should expect the engine mount to withstand?

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