More fiddling with the engine location

 Today I sent some time getting the engine onto a dolly so that I could maneuver it around inside of the chassis and control it's height and tilt independant of the chassis. I had to go to this effort so that I could work out the exact (or close to exact) engine position I could work out that gave me clearance it the distributor, the crank pully, the bell housing, and the cam shroud at the bonnet all at the same time. I used some wheel dollies to set the engine on its oil pan and at the bell housing. Then I used a couple of screw jacks between the dolly and each motor mount to control lateral tilt (roll). I then used shims under the oil pan and bell housing to control longitudinal tilt. I placed that dolly inside the chassis with the front jacked up enough so that the engine hoist could slide under the frame rails. Then lowering and tilting the engine with my leveling bar I gently lowered the engine back into the chassis and onto the dolly. So far, no drama.

Crank about 1 inch below design height

I achieved an engine level attitude with the crank snout at the 90mm design height. I was able to slip on the Esslinger underdrive pulley above the frame rail and behind the cross braces. At this attitude the clearance to the distributor was minimal - far less than needed to run the CAS cam trigger from Stinger, which is my goal.  Time for lunch and a little re-think.  

Distributor Clearance
I took a look at the underside of the chassis at the transmission tunnel and the bell housing was hanging down a bit more that it should (this is with the engine level and the 90mm crank height). So I jacked the rear end of the engine up which has the benefit of tilting the engine down at the front.  I achieved the crank snout about an inch below the design height. This will translate into sufficient clearance at the cam shroud. It took several tries with shims, jacking, leveling to get to that attitude. Very interative. I finally achieved about an inch clearance between the distributor and the frame brace. The CAS needs about 1.2 inches above the distributor - so still not adequate but getting close! 

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