I've still have been daily driving the car, but now with some downtime, replaced the steering rack, new outer tie rods, ZZP rear trailing arms and sway bar installed.
just gotta fix the alignment this weekend as I apparently suck at taking measurements, but it's back on the ground in one piece so good enough

on a side note, I had the ZZP belt wrap kit on the car a few months, driving home from work a few weeks ago heard a loud bang and no more sc whine.
pull over to look, belt is shredded and the solid metal pulley that is on the wrap kit apparently blew apart. (all that was left is the inner bearing race.....)
so removed that and running a shorter belt for now.
debating on throwing on the 2.8 pulley I have laying around since I"m bored.