[KevinW]

Thanks Luke.
Valid pints on the intake. I may well fit a rubber trim round the turkey pan perimeter so that it seals on the hood - I have seen a few cars do this to maintain the cold air feed.

Actually I wanted the turkey pan for looks as much as anything - they are a rarity item in the UK. My engine builder was pretty unhappy with the S&H filter i added, telling me i'd loose horsepower. But for me, anything above 400hp and similar torque is way more than anything i ever drove in my life, so it'll keep me happy for a good few years. And I wanted the engine bay to look like an original as much as possible.

Biggest problems for the linkage are the height of the footboxes (several inches higher than an original, and interfacing to the gas pedal. Original cars had a nice pendulum fixing on top of the footbox. Thats not possible for me without a lot of retrofitting and fettling. So, in the interests of actually getting the car on the road sometime soon, its a compromise I'll have to make.