We could use some advice.

Installed our Blueprint SBC 383 today and we ran out of room on the firewall side. We had to leave a 3/8”gap between the welded mount on the frame and the bolt on mount for the engine mounts.
And probably needs to actually be a 1/2 inch.

Did we get the wrong mounts? or is this normal and maybe we just need to put spacers or grade 8 washers in to fill the gaps?

Or did we make some rookie mistake that we’re not seeing yet?

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