Well I appreciate that nobody is waiting around just to answer my post, but I decided I can fix it.
I made a jig to make sure I get things back together correctly and will dry fit in the car prior to welding, I will be cutting out both sides, I'm going to have to cut the support bracket to accept the new 3" pipe I'm going to use, this pipe will slide nicely over the original tube.
Ill post some more pics as time goes on but it took me half the day just to get the assembly off, she was not budging.