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!

These are the replacement struts..

An initial problem with them is that they were only designed for straight line use. The lower mounting pin was at the bottom of the strut itself but, to get the correct geometry, it needed to be further outboard towards the wheel.
The correct position for it was on the hub so to begin with a hole was drilled in it and a pin machined with a small locating stud on the top of it...