I found UB Machine very useful and helpful. Things like tapered pins for spindles etc., they have many versions for Pinto...
http://www.ubmachine.comI was thinking about talking to them about fabricated wishbones and front spindles. My recollection is they make parts we can use, but they need to be asked to make both right and left sides of some.
It's great you guys are looking at ways to make our place better. I think the fresh eyes is good so I don't want to slow down the thinking. We have some of this stuff available to you now or close to anyway. One thing we can do on a thread like this is for the owner to edit the first post in this thread to, for instance, maintain a collection of the links posted here in some outline fashion.
Editing your first post is a powerful way to be able to present this information. A difficult thing is deciding how to organize the outline, but you can decide to present the info multiple ways if you have links to other threads. I'm just trying to say it's pretty much wide open.
Then there is also a LocostUSA wiki which Dave Hempy setup and there was some work on. I'd like to see us do a better job of presenting models people have made for 3D or FEA etc. Maybe the wiki works better for that?