On a high HP car, the mid plate area NEEDS to be an integral part of the chassis or you will have problems. This is still just kind of "hanging out there" and has no side to side support. Those bars coming off the upper strut bars should have been ONE bar that was bent to cross top of trans and then up to other snout bar and THEN tied in to rest of chassis. Plus the mid plate is just mounted on a piece of angle hanging in the breeze off the tubing.

The TWO tubes for the shock support serves no purpose. One would have been plenty. Not trying to be critical here and I applaud anyone who takes on a project like this themselves, but some thought as to what something DOES and what you NEED it to do, needs to be taken into account before you just start welding tubing in where it LOOKS like it needs something.

At this point, car has had a lot of tubing added that doesn't DO anything.

With a "stock firewall" rule, you could have bent the loop the way I referenced, then placed that loop back against firewall or even notched and made it "part" of firewall. Some bracing would have then had mid plate basically boxed and "part" of factory firewall and structure. You could then have moved motor back a touch.