Its great to have some one like your self 1200coupe on these forums especailly with your depth of knowledge. People like Michael and myself can really benefit from your ideas seeing as we are into rally.

I have one question about engine mounts. I have just dummied the setup of my 1200 motor and Hurricane extractors in the rally car. I have found that the extractors foul on the engine mount. I have breifly spoken to one of the rally guys down here about it and still have to check out his setup. He had the same problem. I used one of my spare mounts to check what amount of metal I needed to cut out of the mount so the extractors dont hit. Turns out I cut most of the rear vertical part on the engine mount out so the extractors would fit (instead of being a channel U its now a L). Seeing as you are an engineer can you tell me if this mount will still be strong enough? Should I design a new mount? I thought about utelising the mount without cutting it by turning it upside down, so instead of the channel being open from above (ie "U") it was up the other way. I am going to kick myself that I didnt get this car going sooner. Once the engine mount is sorted we can make a gearbox cross member, then the tailshaft can be made up, then it will move!

Cheers,

Simon