I spent some time looking at the support tonight. I don't see why I shouldn't just cut the edges (edges are curled for support) and bend the support towards the front of the engine. I hope this illustrates what I mean - this is the support bolted down where it is supposed to be. I'd cut on the blue and bend at the red, then tack weld on the corners:
Here's a view with the support clipped to the pickup. If I bent it 90 degrees on the red line, it should bolt up where is it supposed to:
what do you guys think?
