I was not trying to sound argumentative. I appreciate your input. For me most of the expense is in the tools. The time aspect for me is not really important(not saying it wont get to be that way). I used to fab chassis, I enjoyed the work, I enjoyed building things. My current career pays good but is boring as hell. There is very little thinking. This is something I am doing for enjoyment, and hopefully it pays for itself. I might finish the first one and go straight back to the drawing board because it sucks. Failure is the best teacher.
I have been running some math on these front ends, the bump steer is garbage on all of them. There seems to be something to be gained in changing the inner pivot a bit, but short of redesigning the way these things steer there does not seem to be a good solution. On pavement cars we can get that shit perfect, zero change on the RF and a tiny bit of bump out on the LF. These things bump in massively, that can be made to work if you slice the bike in half and only worry about one corner at a time. but in a straight ahead scenario its going to act like a speed brake. Maybe there is not enough grip to matter, I wont know for awhile.