Danno,
Where are you with your winsor project? Have you looked at the crate motors from coasthigh.com? I checked out their shop, and ended up buying my motor from them. I did the math and could not find a better deal even from a ground up rebuild.
I got the shortened Ford Racing waterpump installed. I went with the matching dual groove pulleys and added a dual pulley to the alt. The water pump pulley is a slightly smaller dia then stock cleveland so it spins faster at lower speeds a good thing. You will need a ford motorsport crank space (.860 thick). This way both the water pump, AC compressor and alt are running two belts providing extra redundancy. The pump is 1.5 inches shorter then stock, so the next project is modifying the firewall access pannel to make more passenger room.
When you get to motor installation, look at the rotatatable thermostat housing from CSI. Pricey but allows the H2O inlet to be moved in a position that aligns it better to the swirl tank. The housing height is lower so it clears the firewall very nicely.
Other then that is is an easy swap from the cleveland to winsor. The pantera parts vendors can provide the proper headers, AC compressor brackets and misc hardware.
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