cheer's lads some good info here.

what sort of power was the touring cars making and where they quite reliable with the transfer box working in the way it was, not having to replace the floor pan would be nice but depends on pro's and con's, and what sort of power loss do you get from running the engine transversley instead of longitudinaly.

i'm not looking for big power tbh might even keep it N/A 2ltr zetec just with a tune to make it more zippy, mainly to make it nice and reliable and as it'll be a daily driver and i do a few miles it'll keep the fuel costs down a bit

also how strong where the rear arms and subframes on the 4x4 mondeo's will they take all the power from the engine, or will it be more of diff issues and such like, i'd like to not have the fear of chewing something up whilst having a play.

one last thing the talk of jag x type i knew they where a decendant of the mondeo and thats where the jag 4x4 drive system was tested but i got confused with the talk of the s type are you implying the floor pan of the s type has familiarity's with the x type and the mondeo or am i getting the wrong end of the stick here.

cheer's guy's like said some top tips for me and others here