The front cross member is almost complete. In the second pic, the ends of the tube have been cut and drilled to mount the control arm (planning on 1/2" bushings). The lower steering rack mounts have also been welded on. My one concern with this is the main tube is only 16 gauge and I'd like something a little more substantial to hold the control arms, so I'm playing with some different ideas of how to strengthen the mounting points. My first trial is the third pic. The idea is to weld supports on both sides of the each end.
While fitting the front cross member I realized I wasn't very happy with how everything was "fitting" in the front end, so I decided to a little more deconstruction and reconstruction. I cut off part of the front and then moved the forward most a-arm vertical tubes and angled them back from the lower front to the upper support that I added a few months back. I'm realizing this doesn't make much sense so just take a look at the last couple of pics and compare them to the last engine fitting post pics to see the changes in the front end.
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