We've played around quite a bit with tie rod pickups with the drift guys. The obvious problem is getting it low enough to dial out some of that bump steer, but once you bring it inside enough to clear the wheel (so you can get low enough), you're probably going to be running into the LCA.
Measuring is key - what we've done in the past with new chassis is to make a 'swiss cheese' plate on both sides with lots of mounting locations and a very long spacer down to the tie rod, and take angle and bump-steer measurements on both sides lock-to-lock. This way you can tune overall angle (closer or further from the LCA ball joint), Ackerman angle, and bump steer - then when you have a setting you like, make a bracket that matches that position.
