I was able to piece together the pieces to lower the engine by 25mm. A couple notes about this. There is a special spacer bolt that bolts onto the upper RH engine mount bolt and extend the treads upward another inch.
This custom bolt is built for a 10mm mount. The US Fiesta had 12mm mounting bolt. I was looking on ebay at the mounts in the UK, and the bolt just looked smaller, so I questioned one of the sellers and sure enough the upper mounting bolt was10mm. So I bid on it and won it for about $8.00 + considerable shipping from the UK...although less overall than what US mounts cost from BAT.
I also didn't have both cradle spacers, so I bought a 1" square aluminum bar from metal by the foot, and drilled 2 holes with my trusty drill press. I thought that it being aluminum, that I would be able to saw through it fairly quickly by hand with my hack-saw...wrong. If you are going to do this, have the supplier cut it to length.
Once I got the engine mount, the bolt was about 1/2" too long to seat fully onto the custom lowering bolt. I just cut off about 1/2" with a hack saw.
You probably won't find an actual mount bolt, but they do make 12mm sleeve nuts in grad 5 and 8 from Granger. This is the only really custom piece. The rest of the parts are just hardware and could be simple to fabricate with nothing more than a drill press and a hack-saw.
This will lower the center of gravity, and level out the drive shafts, so that torque steer will be reduced.
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