Jac Mac you are right I could take the belt off etc thats what I did when we dynoed the engine and used a speed brace, but its a bit inaccessible as my engine bay is quite crowded, I need a filter mount and it would make it easy to prime the engine on a more regular basis, mind you when my road car has done 500,000k of hard miles with no issues. I am thinking its only important when the block is dry.
Regarding filters I am going to use these Canton screw on filters
https://www.cantonracingproducts.com...ion&key=25-434
they have no bypass, flow 45 gpm and filter down to 8microns. As you mention I might be better to go for a Ford remote mount as I can use a variety of high performance Ford filters such as K&N etc, the small mounts are HP1, HP4 etc. I had a Fram HP6 mount and it was just massive so I got rid of it.