I'd be all about making some rear fender flares if the unit is a little too wide. Either that or slicing and dicing the rear fenders to install widening strips.
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I would not pass up an opportunity to make the unit work. Just think about the braggin' rights involved and the ride quality. Take lots of photos.
Eliminating the struts would involve engineering and fabricating an upper control arm, then mounting a conventional coil spring or coilover unit. With your training and some perseverance, you could pull it off, I'm sure. Get a copy of Carroll Smith's "Tune To Win" book and read it through. He shows how to make "paper dolls" in the back of the book, a kind of sample suspension system made of paper and using stick pins to test out a suspension geometry on paper before committing to hard parts. Carroll Smith is the only reason I was able to envision and construct an entire independent front suspension from scratch when building my '27 T Roadster. I read many other authors before him, but he was the "Guru-What-Am".
Googling Clanwilliam reveals a South African location. Is that where you are?
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