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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chevy Ecotec" data-source="post: 30860" data-attributes="member: 12158">The rear trans mount is a bit tricky. The Equinox exhaust was meant to run closer to the passenger side of the vehicle, with a catalytic converter mounted under the exhaust manifold pointing down. The downpipe for the turbo on the LHU won't clear the Equinox rear trans mount bracket. The ZZP downpipe doesn't clear it either.[ATTACH=full]3498[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3500[/ATTACH]It might be possible to use the AWD rear trans mount bracket on the FWD transmission with some bushings to make up the difference in width of the transfer case. I didn't have a mount bracket for the AWD at the time of this swap to try it out. To do this on the AWD 2.4 Equinox, it looks like a custom downpipe will be needed from the turbo, down and around the location of the original cat, and then relocate a catalytic converter to underneath the vehicle and extend the wiring for the O2 sensors. This would eliminate the need to modify the rear trans mount.[ATTACH=full]3501[/ATTACH]I tried the rear mount for the Buick, one for a Cobalt SS, as well as a few other GM vehicles. I couldn't find one that worked. This is where watching MacGyver and growing up in the 80s paid off. I used the rear trans mount bracket for the Buick, flipped the rear trans mount for the Equinox to under the subframe instead of above it. I was able to use all 3 holes in the subframe for the trans mount. I only needed 3 spacer bushings between the mount and the subframe, and the rest was cake.[ATTACH=full]3502[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3503[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3505[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3506[/ATTACH]Up next: Intercooling for the second gen Equinox.</blockquote>

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