Wow, neat story. Welcome back. Don’t want to make you angry or drive you back into hiding but, please post questions one at a time separately from each other. Why you ask? You will get specific answers by folks that have first hand experience. A lot of the membership don’t have the time or inclination to read long posts with multiple questions. Second, you will separate Engine Forum questions from Driveline Forum (transmission, master cylinder, clutch, crossmember) questions. Third, as you have done, others will be searching and one subject per thread makes for easier searching.
Finally, don’t wait another 18 years to post. We are all curious about your project and the progress being made. shake


Martin
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