Update:
All together now:
2 Timkin bearings from Rock Auto. Tearing it all apart cost me 2 ball joints and 2 tie rod ends and a silly mistake cost me an ABS wire.
555 Ball joints from Amazon pressed by the same shop that did the bearings and tie rod ends from Rock Auto.
So here's the front-end rundown:
new ceramic brake pads, struts, endlinks, swaybar bushings and turned rotors beginning 2013.
New bearings, used ABS wire, new ball joints and tie rod ends now. I chose to have ball joints pressed in rather than pay the same or more for new, most likely inferior control arms.
I still hear some odd sounds when acceleratingbut not like before. I had my friend drive and I sat shotgun, and it sounds like its coming from behind the center stack, which means it could be the rear motor mount, or it could be the downpipe - either the hangers or maybe the flexpipe. At least its not spring seats and strut mounts!