06-26-2011, 11:04 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Golden Isles,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Butler Cobra. 350 Chevy Engine, blueprinted, heads cc'd, ported, polished, manifolds matched, big valves, 1.6 roller rockers, TB Injected, mild cam, MSD crank trigger electronic ignition. TKO-600 transmission. XKE Jaguar rear. IFS by Fast Cars
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Don, your installation will be a lot easier than mine as you got the 2" wider IFS. You will just be able to hoist it into position and check how much of a hole alignment issue you have.
I had to cut two bird mouth notches in my chassic before I could do that. Being the first has it's price I guess. The notches also limited how much front to back movement I had for aligning the holes. And the movement towards the rear was finite. You may not have to drill as big as 20mm. Keep your fingers crossed.
Did you have Ted make the extension steering shaft to connect the Rack & Pinion directly to the MGB steering column? I had Ted make one for me out of aircraft grade 20mm aluminum shaft. If you have the standard MGB column it will be a direct connect to Teds. You can toss the intermediate shaft that typically was used. If you use the intermediate you have, you will have to add brackets & bearing supports for it, otherwise I think it will introduce a lot of flex and sloppy steering.
Open the bonnet and take a picture of the setup you have now. I'd be interested before I comment further.
Arthur
Last edited by lal Naja; 11-17-2011 at 06:22 AM..
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