So my arm kit arrived, got it fitted up and dialled in today. Didn't bother with the traction arms since my alignment guy said they are pointless. Also threw in the subframe locking collars.
Anyways, stupid arch lip is stopping me from going more upright, but got the rears up to -1'20 and 20min toe in, front to 7.5' caster, -2'30 and zeroed the toe. Lowered it another 10mm too.
Looks much better, seems to really hook up better mid-exit, and no longer has a really nasty snappiness on transition from grip to slip. The locking collars seriously firm up the subframe location, you don't feel any movement from the rear when cornering over rough bumps, very tight. Downside is you hear quite a bit more driveline noise in the cabin.
The front end still isn't as pointy as I would like, might go for poly lower arm and rack bushes.
Oh, and the problem I had with the downpipe studs doing a runner was worse than I had though. There was only one finger tight fixing left in the downpipe flange so we fixed that, no wonder it was savage loud on boost
Thats the good news, bad news is the 328's new owner blew it up just 1 week after buying. Remains to be seen if the engine is salvageable.