Luckily I had it on another message board.... heres some of it for now:
I've decided to try out building a truck arm rear suspension. I've read reviews on it and it seems to be the best bang for the buck handling package. I just started on this last week, so its a work in progress....here goes!
My floors were rusty, so I cut them out to get this project underway:
Here is my rear suspension donor, i got this whole piece and a 12bolt truck rear end for $100 CDN.
Here is the truck arm crossmember getting cut in half so it fit:
The crossmember with cut down mounts now welded on instead of riveted:
Mock up of the crossmember and subframe connectors, I've decided to go with 2x3 tube(its 2x2 in the pic) for the crossmember tube so I can drop it an inch lower and still have the 2x2 subframe connectors line up. Still to do is build a tub bridge over the driveshaft to tie the two sides together: