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Kudos to you and Heard on a terrific post. Super engineering research and ingenious idea. I had read it and the thread when first appeared. Actually got me off the back burner on my potential project. Questioned Ol' Ron on the Dana Spicer 44 in a message to him and researched that which seemed to be fairly strait forward with the Chassis Eng. kit. The fact is I thought the kits offered for the conversion to T5's didn't involve quite so much as you eloquently put it "cross member & wishbone surgery" as did your's and Heard's conversion. While it isn't beyond my scope ( retired Tool & Die Journeymen ) not sure I want to work that kind of project with the body on the chassis as you indicate @ 66 years young,
. In looking at the Chassis Eng. kit instruction it doesn't look that bad until you get to cutting the ball off the wishbone and cutting slotting and bending the bars. Their description on "how too" seems a bit primitive and looks like a lot could go wrong?
Having said that the whole idea obviously is better drive-ability, & while the 5 speed would be great is there a conversion that leaves the wishbone ball assy in tact. I.e.,to a 4 speed or the C3 / C4 auto conversions?