Been a little while and I just keep picking at it here and there. Had a 4 day weekend and ran out of welding gas on Sat AM, right about the time the welding shop closed of course. I knew I was getting low, just didn't expect it to go so fast
Anyway, engine is out, new pan is on, a little massaging with the hammer cleared one offending hose end, need to order a forged one for the pressure in to clear the pan tho'. Also drilled the frame for the sway bar mounting and lathed up some ends to use bushings I get from McMaster-Carr. Did this on the Porsche and it worked really well. 1.25" Speedway Engineering sway bars will fit in nice and tight. Test fitting a link too to get an idea of how wide the bar needs to be. Getting close to where I just need to bite the bullet and get the shocks on order but would really rather figure out how I intend to mount without them, get the car on the ground on tubing and get real corner weights of course. Redid the mounting for the core support and that got me a cross bar that I can weld the radiator mounts to. I have another spot I hope to make my oil coolers fit but as a backup I have already cleared out an area under the core support to mount both of them.
dammit - all my pics need resized, I will add them another day.