Small update after long delay. Work has still been busy and I've been having to take care of a lot of other things too, so the car has sat waiting for me for a while now while I ponder about how to implement next steps.

On a bright note, I received a question at work about a 3d scanner so I ended up being the one to hunt down a scanner that was stashed away years ago and got it finally running enough to do a scan. Keep in mind this is both 10 year old technology and my first time, but since I had my electric power steering rack for the Coupe in my daily driver's trunk, I used it as a test sample to scan. Now I can see how it'll fit in 3D assuming I can model up the front differential! Too bad I don't have a scanner of my own that could scan all of the parts ahead of time.