You went right where I pushed you with the twisting effect of the motor mounts. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> I gussetted the <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif" alt="" /> outta my motor mounts and tied them into the shock mounts, yet still I worry a bit about 'em. It is on the list to fab a tower-to-tower shock brace to tie it all together a bit more (a crossmember up top, if you will)... but right now it is handling being parked quite well. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Making low lift and SAS work together is a challenge -- you wind up with pitman arm, axle housing, frame member, steering linkage, and other bits all wanting to share space at the most inoportune time. Adding cross-members is pretty ambitions anywhere other than the traditional places -- up front behind the bumper or aft of the firewall. The crossmember that Isuzu uses to tie the lower control arms together goes away in most swaps I have seen... but the suspension loads go away, as well. The motor mounts loads remain, though, as you noted.

FWIW, the frame is about 3" tall, 2.25" wide, and mebbe 3/16" wall thickness... in metric, I guess. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> That probably brings the ratios a little more even, but I bet the short sides of the rectangle still win... which really makes me want to rethink some of my past fab. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" /> I'm not worried about it falling apart, but I'd guess some of it could be stronger.

Randii