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FWIW, Angelo, some or most of your troubles can be alleviated by reversing the lower mounts side for side, then altering the ZF mounts to match. Swapping the mounts pushes the whole engine backward some 0.62". Advantages: your unaccountably low engine mounting lowers the car's center of gravity thus improving handling. And sliding the engine backwards makes enough clearance in front for a big-cap distrubutor to not hit the firewall and makes maintenence easier. The move does not require any other alterations- water plumbing, electrical and halfshaft angularity are unaffected. The only area that bears checking is where the shifter shaft passes below the upper drivers side engine mount. If the shift-shaft support is not adjusted downward a little, sometimes it rubs the motormount, causing hard-to-dagnose shifting problems. I've cut my '72's mounts and also slid the motor backwards, and the relocation works well; the crank pulley edge is well below and behind the crossmember.
Finally, changing to a Sankyo or Sanden A/C compressor will also remove the low-speed side-to-side shaking of the whole car that comes from the sideways mounting of the York compressor. Around town, our York used to shake the car enough to make my wife carsick!