Front suspension rebuild part 1

So after I got the wheels on I decided to do a 88 style front frame and suspension, there was a couple reasons, main one was that I didn't 100% like the way the one I built turned out. What I built should work, but there was a couple nagging issues/design imperfections that I didn't want to live with, so a local member had a 88 front frame laying around that I grabbed and now I am going to rebuild everything in the front end.

Over the last week I measured up the stock 88 lower control arm, did a design in autocad and built it today. I am very pleased in how it came out, took about 2.5 hours to build and weld this unit up, there is only one small thing that I want to add to beef up the spring mount area, although its probably strong enough right now. The best part is, I put the stock LCA on the scale, tipped it at 9.8lbs with the ball joint and rubber bushings installed, my LCA comes in at 4.6lbs without the ball joint and bushings, even loaded it looks like mine is going to be 50% weight of the stock unit.

Lastly I got the final gauge pod tack welded together for the center HVAC location, 8 gauges in the center console but I still need to find room for one more, need room for the interceptor.