Also,
We finished getting the body off of the car tuesday night. We then rolled the chassis out into the driveway and finished removing the 3 gas lines that were hard to get to, and the rest of the steering linkage and steering box that was left.
We did a little bit of pressure washing to remove some of the grease and grime as to not get so dirty when working on it.
When we rolled it back in to the garage, we started mocking up the new manual rack. After looking over the C4, and trying a few things, we decided that we need to mount the rack so that the tie rod ends are on the top of the knuckles. This will require re-tapering the holes for the tie rod ends. We took a bunch of pictures and some measurements.
I have since drawn up a mount in CAD. The mount is made out of 3/16" thick 1.25" square tube steel. This will be welded to the frame. The rack will attach to the tube steel with some clamp mounts I designed as well. I will be CNC machining these out of 1.875" thick aluminum blocks. These are 2 pieces that will have 2 bolts to clamp each end of the rack to the frame. I believe this should hold up very well.
Heres a picture of the mount and some from the mock up:
-Adam