[TR] lucas distributors

[Frank Fisher]

 a friends son is a very talented young man and has been manufacturing some
very high quality performance parts for small market auto's. Mitsubishi,
Volvo, diesel and mini. he owns a mid 60's mini.
one of the things he
developed was a kick ass distributor upgrade for older Volvo. he took modern
Mitsubishi technology and with some very nice accurate machine work made a
complete distributor that works on the older Volvo. it somehow works with
computer controlled device that he builds electrical boards for.
the mini
community now has him working on a replacement system for them.
as we talked
it looked like the mini lucas distributor was the same basic body casting as
my TR3. obviously the advance curves are very different, and that is dealt
with in his electrical board and his PC.
what i have been searching the net
for is information that will identify the body type and its insertion
dimensions into the engine block or adapter. if the TR3 body is the same as
the mini body and the distance from the neck down to the base is the same, he
will not have to keep measuring and reverse engineering the parts. same for
the TR6/spit etc.
does any one know where there is easy access to this
information on line?
i can find all of the advance curve info, but nothing on
physical dimensions.
thanks
Frank