I'm working with a 1963 Buick Aluminum V-8, which has the same family roots as the V-6. I'm trying to figure out how to mount some modern accessories, like an alternator, power steering pump and air conditioning compressor. I would like to end up with the A/C compressor on the passenger side and the alternator and pump on the drivers side. The aluminum V-8 has a front timing cover and cylinder head mounting points like a mid-sixties V-6, which may or may not be the same as the modern V-6's as in the TR's.
So what I'm asking is: Do the TR's mount their accessories like I'm describing and if so do you think the bracketry would swap onto an early V-6.
The modern V6 is the same... mounting points are on the front of the cylinder head and via brackets mounted to the timing cover and head.
This is good news. Do you think that my positioning requirements, alternator and power steering pump on the drivers side and A/C compressor on the passenger side, can be accomplished with stock Buick bracketry?
It all depends ... most V6s had the power steering on the driver's side, alternator up high on the DS, and AC was either on the DS (for the serpentine belt motors) or on the passenger's side (old V belt style longitudinal compressors).