Another benefit of my mid rail change was alignment of the mid rails with the upper head mount. It's almost like it was meant to be. I wish i could say I purposely planned this outcome but it kind of fell into place. :-)
The weld on the front side turned out okay, not super pretty sadly. I'll need to add a backing plate/weld to prevent cracking on the back side. Most of the welds are going to have to be gone over again, most of them were done hovering without much place to prop and got a little wonky.