Stunning work you are putting down here! Also very nice to see how scale it is as i have owned a 1:1-scale mk2. Soldering looks very cool, this is something i would like to try but have never gotten to it.

On my 1:5-scale Escort i was wondering if i should do something like you have done on the front struts, but i couldn't quite figure it out and i think the legs in the shocks would be quite strong enough to be connected directly to the chassi and take the impacts from the ground while driving. I would have to make some larger legs then, but that is not easy either with having to make new seats for O-rings in the shock caps and many other things.