Brett,
That is good information, I never got that far.
Bill

Meziere can make R3 short deck water pump housings. He has the dimensions and it is a fairly easy variation on the standard LA water pump housing. Whether he wants to or not is a different question. I suppose if enough people asked for a short deck water pump setup he would build them.

It is probably a lot easier to just drill and tap for AN fittings and then run an external water pump. The external pump is a better solution in most cases anyway.

Meziere does make an R-3 electric water pump as I have one on my R-3 engine. I don't know the part number but I know it fits...

AndyF, do you think that it would be worth us making a universal front-drive kit? Are the Moroso, Jesel and MSD units dead on accurate, or is there room for improvement? Thanks.

Tough call. The Jesel distributor is really very simple. I suppose if you can come up with a better mousetrap then they'll sell, but that is such a simple distributor I'd be hard pressed to figure out how to make it better.

I have an MSD front drive on one car and a Jesel on the other. Not sure if there is any improvements you can make to them. They really are very rudimentary. Since they are all crank trigger pieces there just is not much too them and no need to adjust them really. Just set it up once and be done with it.

I recall reading on Speedtalk that a few guys had issues with the Jesel units cross firing because of attaching hardware in the distributor, or something to that effect anyway. It was quite a few years ago. Jesel was using a Mallory cap etc for their units. Not sure if they are now.
I have one down in the garage, there really isn't a lot to them.