Easy Run Test Stand; Out of Business?

[Billohio]

Nice cart you picked up!

[SuperNovaSS]

Seems like a great idea to me.

Jason

[Lynn]

Any downside to using a Marine application fuel tank?

[scuncio]

This is what I used, price was fair.

[Lynn]

I got ready to weld the longitudinal square tubing on. Got to thinking; what if i don't like where I positioned it? Hmmm. Decided to bolt it together. Besides, sitting right next to the drill press and holes are pretty easy with a drill press... if you use cutting fluid and don't wear out your bits.

The two longitudinals are 66 inches long. I wanted a stand that I could bolt virtually any engine to... even if I had a trans mounted.

So far, I have not bought any steel for this project. The square tubing (some is 1.5, some is 1 inch) came from either the giant rolling doors or the door frames that were on my shop when i bought it. Gave away one of the three doors, but no one wanted the other two; so I disassembled them to save the steel frames. Gave away the corrugated tin. It was in very poor shape. Went to a good home; the guy made chicken coops out of if. Even the brake is repurposed. The PO of the building left some parts of an old Delta saw stand. I pirated the brake off of the lower frame and adapted it to this cart. That way, I can lock it down, and didn't have to buy locking casters. I used part of an old muffler clamp held down with a bolt that swivels in place to hold the brake in the "on" position. Forgot to get a pic.

There are three laterals. The largest lateral bar is 3 x 1/4 inch angle iron. Way beefier than I need; but it was free; so why not?
It will support the uprights that will mount to the engine mounts. I have some really beefy 2 inch x 1/4 angle iron that I will use for the uprights.

The other two are square tubing. I think one is 2 inch and the other is one or 1.5. Not sure. Both have 1/8 inch steel plate welded to them as reinforcements, so they are plenty strong.

One of those will hold the uprights that will bolt to the back of a bell housing for engines with no trans. The second one, farther back, will holt a trans mount.

All three laterals are infinitely adjustable. I simply used "U" clamps, similar to muffler clamps to locate them. Less than 3 bucks a piece. Had to spend SOME money on this.
Will be spending plenty on wiring, a tach, fuel tank and radiator. Loosen the nuts and slide it to where you want it. Tighten the nuts.

Yeah, with all this repurposed metal, it is pretty ugly. I doubt I will clean it up and have it powder coated. More into utility on something like this than looks.

I will be buying some plastic plugs or caps for the ends of those longitudinal tubes. Already cut my legs three times today running into them while working on some other things.

This project is on hold until I get the radiator ordered a 4 row for a big block 69 Camaro with integral fan and shroud. Didn't want to trust myself to make a mount for it until I had it here. Will probably set a spare block up on it with bell housing, then with trans to get it set up for SBC. After that, shouldn't be too difficult to make whatever pieces I need to adapt if to Studebaker, MG, Ferrari, BMW, or whatever comes along.