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The little bit of tie rod to harmonic dampener clearance you gained by raising the engine probably helped.

Any chance you changed the tire pressures?

A lot depends on the tires you're running.
The ride was much improved on my 32 by taking the original rear tires - BF Goodrich 31.50 x 15, a light truck radial tire, but at the time the only one available in that particular diameter, etc. - down to 16#.
These tires had 7 ply tread and 3 ply sidewall.
They were quite popular on highboy roadsters & coupes.

Front tire at the time was BFG 175/70R-14 and I ran it at 26# - 28#.

Nowadays the front tires are BFG 185/70R-14 and it runs at 30#.

Rear tires are 285/70R-15, which are the same size as the abovementioned 31.50 x 15's, diameter, tread width etc. and they run at 20#.
Tread plies on these tires are 3 on the tread and 1 on the sidewall.
Much flexier and much better ride.

Some guys argue the tire pressure deal and air up their large rear tires on similar cars to 35# and wonder why it rides so rough.

Just cuz it says max load @ 35# on the sidewall doesn't mean the pressure is correct for your car.

As a further point, my new at the time 88 Mustang GT had 35# in the tire from the dealer and the 2nd day I owned it I was wondering if I could make it with the rough ride and all.
Life was much improved when I found the recommended tire pressure sticker (30#) on the passenger side door frame.

If you're running bias-plies, you're on your own.
I don't have any recent experience with those.

Although, using the old rolling through water trick would probably show you if the bias plies were correctly inflated.