[SteveB]

Chris
To ginger up the lights I have been checking out the aftermarket Xenon replacement bulbs that are available in the UK for both headlaps and spots. The Marchal units have a strange three pin bayonet that seems to fox the supplier, lots of time yet to find something.

The engine is in place and is very tight in every direction, the ZF mount puts the engine low and forward. Lots of clearance to the low side areas but the MSD billet distributor supplied with the Edelbrock EFI is too big to clear the engine bulkhead opening. In fact the cap could not be fitted.

After lots of contact with Edelbrock I find the diz is a special 'hall effect' unit in the MSD body, the only other compatible unit was a Mallory unit with a smaller cap but a similar height.

So drastic measures needed, I have chopped out 25mm (1"), the unit nw fits nicely under the frame and I can keep the big cap.

Before and after pic attached

This was a bit of a mind block but now I can move on to othe bits. I found a MkII oil cooler and am looking for a second 11" unit.
Has anyone details of the oil circuit that has been used; I was thinking of using a thermostatic take off plate under the filter then to the cooler which is the non coagulating type with the internal bypass normaly controled by a thermostat in the base plate/ Continental engine. Then what series or parallel? I have no base plate so I will fit the feed and return in the plate I have made, the slot in the plate is to allow feed to the bypass.

Steve