i'm wanting to go more the kugal komponents route for the convesion, that means a front cradel for the engine, something like this

focus engine bay


u leave the original mondeo front subframe in place, just cut the back out of it so gearbox will fit

and as its a solid axle, with mounts like a mk3/4/5 cortina, go a triangular 5 link setup with the lower outer mounts going forward to the original mondeo chassis mount for the trailing arm it has to keep the wheel in place,

focus kugal setup


tunnel in the mk3 i'm hoping is a little bigger that the mk1, so needs even less modding for the t56,

what kugal did for steering was to swap the struts from side to side, so the syeering arm then is at the front of the strut not the back, moving the rack to the front part of the engine bay, making steering reletively easy to sort out, maybe going electric power steerig,