Well its been a while, making my own sump took to much time so I went with the retor ford setup. Time will tell if it was a good or bad call. got to get ready for Bathurst come Easter.
Heres some pics.
trimming the rocker cover, I'm sure these will get in the way, not so sure about the breather.
Kind of hoping the breather will clear but ends up it doesn't, so hacked it off in situ.
This is the idler pulley I made earlier, I took .100" of the mount boss to make room and align for a support I had to make for the water rail below. Tapped out a hole and screwed a support bracket to it, sits between block and idler pulley mount.
Some mods if you want to keep your original lifting eyes to clear the raceline water rail.
Had to trim in two places the ashley exhaust flange, cause it fouled on the water rail when dummy fitting it to the motor. (note 1 & 4 cylinder mounts)
Got the crud gaurd sorted, time to mount the flywheel and cog box.
Note patent pending flywheel holding tool;)
almost ready to go in, FINALLY!
After much cursing, sweat and more cursing the flaming thing is in, on its mounts, NOTE: I had to lower the cross member by half an inch to get this fuggin thing in. Also as mentioned earlier hack of the breather at the rear of the cover. also once I got it in I find the thing sitting on my rack so it comes out to put some spacers on the engine mounts which made it even harder to get back in. I ended up spacing it about 4mm both sides, which give me about 7mm of clearance of the steering rack. Got to admit it looks sweet in there!
Progress should be a little quicker now its in, as the sump was the big stumbling block for me. Plus I got 1 day of a week to get it sorted before Bathurst.