Reply to "Ricardo"

Well sorry for the delay, but I had a rather interesting week.

Walked into work Monday morning and was told to hop a plane to Socal to visit a vendor, had some extra time so I managed to talk with Steve, in person!

Mark, Steve showed me your car, and its quite true you car has had some very extensive modifications done to fit the ford GT drive train, but it is looking outstanding. However, after talking with Steve I don’t believe a Ricardo behind an older pushrod motor would require anything near that much work.

Due to the Ricardo dimensions, in order to get the half shaft angle acceptable you need to sink the Ricardo down in between the aft frame rails. To fit the Ricardo in between the frame rails you need to increase the distance between them by more than a couple inches from a standard Pantera. So modifications are needed to the back subframe and suspension points are required, but again not as extensive as what was done to Mark's car (back-halfed) in order to fit the complete GT drive train.

I don’t think just going to a CV shaft kit would fix the problem, you will need to do some modification of the aft frame rails. You may be able to get away with just sectioning the rails, but its hard to say. Really just need to get a Ricardo, bolt it up to an engine and start doing check fits to find out I think.

Hopefully that helps other people know what is required for the swap, besides the ambiguous "extensive modifications”.

Dave