I've been working on the front end buck for a while now. The rendering was super helpful in helping me layout what I want. With that said, the virtual world and reality sometimes just don't play nice.
The exhaust wasn't built when the render was done, and even if it was, not sure it would have made that much difference. The render also doesn't have the rocker box that encloses the exhaust. I need those parts "kinda" mocked up to see how they intersect with the fender. The lower louvers won't work as drawn, so I've been playing with different iterations to see what I like. I make something, then leave it a few days to take different looks and let my brain stew on it a bit. I'm more of a shape it, feel it, stand back and look at it kinda guy anyway.
So needed a break from that and wanted to complete a project on the car that could give me some instant satisfaction (well, not instant, but a few days completion).
I've ditched the Sutton disaster decoupled 3-link and went with a conventional 3-link. General consensus is to set the upper link 6-8 degrees down and forget it. I'd like a little more fine tune adjustment on it. Multiple hole brackets make pretty big jumps from one hole to the next, something like 3/4-1" depending on who's bracket you choose. I wanted a finer adjustment. I looked at what the drag racers do with the 4 link brackets, and discovered 1/8" adjustments are possible. I called a few of the places that make them, and found one willing to cut me out some blanks for a single attachment and also additional blanks so I could get the width for high misalignment spacers on the rod end. They did a model, looked good, and I got these pieces to weld up:
Welded them out and ready to attach.
The older I get, the uglier my welds are. Didn't feel like pulsing over the top to make them all pretty!