Hey Drew, I like motor plates. I have considered them as well.
Here are a few thoughts...
Im afraid if you use a traditional motor plate set up you will break things. We used them exclusively on race cars but those only flex in fractions of an inch and the plates served to stiffen the engine bay of the chassis. I believe offroad rigs flex too much and are subject to much too high shock loading when they bounce and land, to try to set up such a rigid mounting system. And a flexy plate system would seem to negate the reason to run a plate! Maybe there are other factors to consider? I dont know.
Offroad racers run extremely rigid chro-moly chassis. (Ever seen all the triangulation in them?) And I havent noticed motor plates in any of them I have eyeballed! I think things would just continuously crack if they mounted all that weight so rigid.
Nice if an ultra 4 or pro4 racer would jump in here, eh?!
