Mostly success.
Thank you everyone for all of the hard work that has already been done before i embarked on this project.
It took me a good five goes to get it to this point.... yes you do need to read all of the things( still working through that).
i updated to 10.13.6 had to fixed the USB 3.0, got audio sorted with deleting some files.
I set up a Fusion drive on mine, turns out it works just as well with partitions as it does drives, i put clover on a partition on the ssd i installed osx to a small partition on the spinning disk, fusioned a 256GB partition on the SSD and the remainder of the spinning disk to make a 1.99 TB fusion drive then i CCC'd the install the the fusion drive and it just worked.
Does anyone know the limits of the SSD portion of a fusion drive because having a 2TB NVMe and a 2TB spinning disk for a total of 4TB would be amazing?
I got wi-fi from the the little TP-link TL-WN725N dongle i got for my raspberry pi it only cost me $11 Aussie dollars
imassage isn't working yet and my logitech MX2 mouse only works with the dongle and not on Bluetooth.
i'm at the point of copying my life over, there is no better backup solution on any platform then CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) or SuperDuper and i'll even time machine too just to be sure.
Once again thanks for everything.