Jeo,
Welcome, if you do a search under 'find' with keyword 'Ricardo' you will find a few threads with people who did this modification. They all had to widen the chassis rails by almost 2 inches each side to get the wider Ricardo to fit as it is considerably bigger than a ZF.
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