Ballparking it with the car up on stands, the bottom of the oil pan appears to be level with the front cross member. The cross member ran with 4-1/2″ of clearance.

Jack, there is a thread in here of the building of my tow bar setup. Complete with pictures.

A little more progress. Three steps forward, two steps back.

I began installing the pulley kit and alternator bracket kits I bought months ago. I found out that they were incompatible.

I’ll never keep a belt on these pulleys.

Back on the internet. I found an outfit that supplies a complete package for alternator only with a v-belt.

Even…[Read more]

Sorry you wont bring the TDr. I assume you will be bringing the little yellow rocket, then? If you’re going to keep the MINI around for a while, join us in July.

http://www.minitakesthestates.com/

All the circuitry for the Ford Duraspark system have been eliminated and the wiring added for the MSD ignition. The circuits for the exhaust cut outs are in along with the circuit for the Accusump. Back up switch circuit has been repaired and several unused circuits that have never been hooked up to anything from the original Ford harness have…[Read more]

Bill, you and Audrey will be missed.

Alright. Mother Nature decided to cooperate this weekend and we were able to get things done.

I really didn’t like all the washers to space out the existing engine mounts. I decided to go with an earlier Ford setup where the mounts used studs to anchor the engine before they went to that horizontal thru bolt.

Remodified the mounting points on…[Read more]