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Thanks for your responses and words of welcome Guys........Nice knowing there are others out there with the same " illness "

In the short time I have been building, I have met a lot of really helpful Guys.....has been great.

Dropping the rear of the cradle is an option........but as the cradle supports the inboard ends of all the suspension arms, it also effects camber curves, squat characteristics under hard acceleration, the rear roll centre and the roll axis of the entire car.

Target will be to get pinion and gearbox axes as close as possible to parallel with no more than about 15mm offset tbetween axes to ensure needle rollers in uni joints get enough movement to lubricate properly.

May look at raising front of cradle a little and rolling diff head up within the cradle. (rubber cradle mounts will need attention by all accounts - especially without snubbers that have been removed )

The current set-up (16" AVO coilovers - 300lb springs )
has the halfshafts sitting almost straight at full "Droop " ( no load )

Would be interested to know how much preload you Guys are running on your coilovers and roughly how much droop.
( in other words - a rough idea of how far the car compresses the rear suspension to arrive at normal ride height ) and does the car sit OK at this height ? ( 17 inch rims )

PS trying to get as much info as possible at this stage.......so with this build it all works first time !! ( should have / would have / if I was doing it again etc )

Thanks..........Murray