Impreza steering rack mod

[SteveSPG]

the scooby rack works just fine with the rover PAS pump in the TVR too.

[caduceus]

Apart from the list of parts, could you tell me roughly how much the conversion comes out to please Rowge?

[Rowge]

Hi All, my serp belt is now fitted correctly, I plan to do a parts list with prices, and a step by step guide, unable to get a TVR made PAS reservoir bracket, so will have to make one, standard one may not fit my carbon plenum anyway

[Chuffmeister]

Rowge said:

Hi All, my serp belt is now fitted correctly, I plan to do a parts list with prices, and a step by step guide, unable to get a TVR made PAS reservoir bracket, so will have to make one, standard one may not fit my carbon plenum anyway

Looking forward to it!

[DamianS3]

Hello I really fancy this as a next winter job on my car..

Dumb question I'm afraid does the PS rack self centre when exiting a bend at all.? Said it was a dumb q chims may all do this anyway the s doesn't really do this.

Thanks

Damian S3

[CHIMV8]

Is this an 800m race or marathon,is anyone near the point of telling us it actually works and completed

[phazed]

Mine was fitted 2-3 years ago!

self centres and is perfect.

That was on my old 4.6.

Just noticed a little play in my TVR PS setup , if the ujs are in good nick then the Scooby setup is going on!

[Rowge]

Went out for a drive last Sunday, the rack behaved beautifully, car now easy to get in and out of the garage, very enjoyable quick right turns, it feels like an impreza, (owned 3 over the years) steering wheel slightly off centre, MOT next week plus full geometry 4 wheel set up. Very happy with the general feel at legal speeds.

[Chuffmeister]

Rowge said:

Went out for a drive last Sunday, the rack behaved beautifully, car now easy to get in and out of the garage, very enjoyable quick right turns, it feels like an impreza, (owned 3 over the years) steering wheel slightly off centre, MOT next week plus full geometry 4 wheel set up. Very happy with the general feel at legal speeds.

I want this! List pleeeeeaaaasssseeeeee! I'm fed up of the hissing and whirring of my old PAS system.

[CHIMV8]

Rowge said:

Went out for a drive last Sunday, the rack behaved beautifully, car now easy to get in and out of the garage, very enjoyable quick right turns, it feels like an impreza, (owned 3 over the years) steering wheel slightly off centre, MOT next week plus full geometry 4 wheel set up. Very happy with the general feel at legal speeds.

At last well done mate

[Chuffmeister]

Chuffmeister said:

+1

Any news on the parts list?

[2020tony]

As I'm completely useless with a spanner is there anyone offering a supply and fit service and if so at what cost?

Tony

[sparkythecat]

Chuffmeister said:

Any news on the parts list?

I recon that Rowge must be busy scouring the country buying all the available bits up before he publishes his parts list.

[phazed]

Just to bring a little life back to this thread.


I stripped off the track rods off the newly acquired scooby rack and behold, they are the same thread as the tivs, result.

The scooby rack bar, (the big chrome slidey thing that moves left and right that the track rods screw in to) is exactly the same width as the tiv one, result again.

The rack mounts to the chassis points as the tiv one does but requires 4 x 22.5mm spacers as discovered by Rowge.

I need to turn the spindle housing around 180 degrees on the scooby rack, 2 bolt two minute job.

Personally I will take the rack and electric pump, ( in my case) to Pirteks for them to make up the flow and return pipes, all for an easy life.

The only bit of engineering required is to machine a different spline on th the scooby input shaft unless someone can inform me of a simpler solution using the scooby splined spindle????

Once that bit is sorted, I can source the correct lower UJ and adapt/renew the double splined spindle that joins the two UJs together.

Simple.

[Chuffmeister]

Can you photograph the scooby and TVR racks side by side and then perhaps the differences between the two?

[phazed]

Chuffmeister said:

Can you photograph the scooby and TVR racks side by side and then perhaps the differences between the two?

Oops, wrong photo.



Pretty similar apart from described above.

I'll try and field any questions.

[Chuffmeister]

Do the track rods need to be shorter/ longer to fit the Chim... Meaning is the overall length of Scooby rack different?

[phazed]

Exactly the same width so once a fit my existing track rods in theory the tracking should be identical.

[Chuffmeister]

Could you not have a connecting collet/ piece made to mate the spindle from the UJ to the spindle of the input shaft, or would that foul on the chassis?

[Chuffmeister]

Are the Impreza and Legacy racks different? They look similar.