all good ideas, appreciate it.

I thought of the elongating the bracket to block holes & dropping the whole motor down about 1/4" TO 3/8", that might provide enough clearance for everything including the velo stacks although I think the easiest solution to those are shorter ones, just not sure where to find them.

I also thought if I lowered the motor by that much I might be able to easily shim down the trans at the tunnel mounts by am equal amount with just washers as shims, that way everything will still be in alignment.

Benny - what are tapered full radius bell mouth stacks?

Tom - are you running 2 or 4 flat slides, congrats on the bike - should be fun.

so when people are talking about cutting mounts or fitting smaller ones what are you using, I'm not sure where one starts with that.