Moving on from the bodywork it was time to start sorting out some of the mechanical issues.
The front suspension was a 6" stainless steel drop tube on a four link system with coil over shocks. The problem was that it had a full width fixed steering rack as there wasn't any room for a steering box. This meant that anything past a quarter of a turn of the steering wheel and the geometry was miles out and it also meant that as the suspension moved the track rod ends were getting to the end of their travel range and would lock up the steering if hitting a bump on near full lock.
I managed to get some coil overs from a fellow drag racer who no longer needed them!

Followed by cleaning up the chassis and removing all of the old mounting points...

These are the replacement struts..

This pin sits nicely in a bottom arm kit that came from Chris Alston Chassis Works...