Long story. Bought the carbs 9 years ago (centimental circumstances), when it was going to be zetec powered. It is now definatly going to be cosworth powered (definatly to vauxhall, dutatec, f20c, boa powered.... DFV would be interesting but not going to happen. Short answer, I already got the carbs.

Long answer.

I could use these carbs with a turbo in the same way lotus did with the elan(?). Lot of hard work, rare car bits. Ford thought injection was a better way back in the day!

Roots blower! Would be interesting but masses of fabrication (Have got good machine shops on tap!). Loads of work.

Esso blue (MK 1 rally car) was only 210bhp, and that had massive chassis mods, which I cannot afford and was set up by proffesional rally crew, and it was a new car! 300bhp+ would be lunacy in a 35 year old chassis with a stock suspension layout (apart from my pnumatic dampers!).

now this may sound crazy (er) but I am keeping the 1760 crossflow (which was mental at 130bhp) and keeping everything reversable (apart from trans tunnel which will be from an auto) for when I am elderly. Once I start thinking about 300bhp, quadlink suspension, rolecage, lsd will all become neccessary. Apart from the cost, the welding work is not reversable.

Another crazy idea. I have red that you can use 1800 diesel rods which give a greater crank length, I could then turn my escort pistons down (have lathe!) to meet top of block. Do the valves protrude far under head when out? would recesses be neccessary in crowns?

Trying to do on budget, so would this be a cheap way to power??

open to sugestions!

Sorry, I appear to have rambled.