Tele, the link is good for getting another overview of the soft mount, but leaves out a lot of the in-between steps. Matt's thread pretty much describes each step from square one, and is also specific to gassers using standoff motor mounts.

Speaking of "insight", I ordered the [link=http://www.insightrc.com/Evo-orderpg1.html]Pentathlon Evo[/link] kit (insightrc.com) and the wood parts will be at my door in a couple of days, with the foam parts to follow a few days later.

Mark Hunt, who designs and sells the insightrc line of kits, told me that he has been following the SAP-180 thread with great interest, and went so far as to work out for me a special re-design of the nose to accommodate the SAP-180 using the 6.25" standoff standard and a soft mount 7/8" thick. Using my measurements and soft mount drill templates, and Syssa's engine dimension diagrams and standoff mounting templates, Mark used his CAD program to design in the left offset for the engine and 2.5 degrees of right thrust, with bolt holes for soft mount pre-drilled (laser cut, actually) in the firewall. Mark of course now has the cut files for the new SAP-specific firewall — which also required a small modification of the basic fuse frame for the back-set firewall — and therefore will be able to have one laser-cut for anyone with the intention of soft-mounting the SAP and using an ES pipe.

If that isn't enough, Mark also is providing the front and rear ply discs — again SAP-specific, with standoff and firewall mount holes already cut!! — for those who want to make their own soft mounts!

Furthermore, he has widened out the pipe tunnel formers a bit more to better accommodate the ES 30G pipe!!

Mine will the the first SAP-specific kit and so in a way it is something of a 'proof of concept' at this point. However, Mark clearly knows what he is doing and seemed to have all the information he needed to make an accurate adaptation for the SAP engine.

Of course, once I get the basic fuse framework together and make my next soft mount, I will be able to test-fit all the pieces together and will have a good idea how it's going to come out. There's no reason to believe at this point that it will be anything but perfect.