Chassis Packing

[JonE]

I'm having similar problems with the Nippy, including not enough space between the dash rim and the steering wheel which makes me think about splaying the body a little to improve things. I'd been considering that some of the design characteristics - a completely horizontal bonnet hinge line - mean that differential packing front and back is going to be needed... but it keeps coming back to the need to centring the rad shell on the starter nose cone.

I'd wondered whether different engine mount rubbers exist or different charactersitics on the feet on crankcases (for instance, once a sports crankcase is lost and a Ruby one adopted) start off some of the problems for body fit?