[Luke Hudson]

Thanks for the input guys.

In answer to some of your questions:
The car is a coupe, I replaced all the suspension last winter (alloy traling arms, all bushings replaced, brakes upgraded, new front struts), I realise if I get a heavier engine I'll need to beef up the rear torsion bars but everything else should be fine in that respect.
The car will be primarily for road use with some track days but i don't envisage entering a racing series, so it doesn't have to be "class" legal.
We have 98 octane petrol here in the UK, so i can go pretty high on the compression ratios, and I'm happy to twin plug (but it will be money dependant)
With regard to induction, yes, I'd love to keep it MFI but the cost may be prohibitive ( this of course depends on whether the donor engine has MFI), so PMO's are looking like the favourite option at the moment this is something I will look into closer to the time.
Exhaust is sorted, I have stainless SSI's and a stainless single out muffler on the E which I'll swap.

I have plenty of time on this project, so I'm happy to wait for the right donor engine to turn up. I really want to minimise the machine work and get the case that needs the least amount of work.

So if I understand the above, my options are a 2.4S or T with 7R case and MFI (this strikes me as an expensive donor engine to buy, especially as the S is a damn fine engine as it is) or a 76/77 2.7 long block and find the induction seperately.

Grady,

You mention 2.8RSR pistons, I assume to run these I'd need to severely modify the heads to fit these pistons? I suppose with all the effort I'm going to i could make this a 2.8.......