The Management

 When I put the blacktop Zetec in the Stylus I had a thing in mind, the engine shouldn't look newer than the car.

OK, strictly speaking the engine is the same age as the car, but the car looks late '60s - early '70s, so I wanted the engine to look "appropriate". I took off all the plastic & replaced it with alloy & put the coil pack under the throttle bodies, so the HT leads come up between the intake runners as if it had a distributor. I'd struggled with cable management as however I arranged it, one of the  HT leads or a fuel hose was always rubbing, but in the end I had it how I wanted it.

A couple of years & a few thousand miles & I noticed a rub on one of the HT leads, so I've done some cable management & it's now all clear (again). I've made a new bracket to hold the pair of leads that pass between the first two runners (I made a bracket for the gap twixt second & third last time) so it looks much neater & I have just ordered some bolts to tidy it up further, but inevitably I've now realised I should've made a new bracket that controls all the wires, rather than have one bracket for each pair.

But this will do. Also - can you tell I now have a buffing wheel? 😁

Also in the pipeline is a better throttle cable arrangement, where the cable will pass out through the front face of the pedal box, rather than the top. This will mean the cable doesn't pass the pedal any more, there's will be over a foot less cable, so less drag & the cable outer will only turn through 90deg, rather than 360deg, again reducing cable drag. This is a good thing.