Quick ratio steering rack

[maicoh]

Question about 2500M steering rack. My rack is worn out, so I'm thinking about going with a quick ratio rack. Will a TR6 or Spitfire rack work, or is the mounting differant.

[Alexdaredevilz]

The Mitsubishi evo is a quick rack, might be worth looking into

[maicoh]

Thanks Alex, just checked out the mitsu racks. They all look like power racks and the mounting would require plenty mods to make fit. I can get the Triumph racks with 2.5 turns lock to lock new for 230.00USD. From what I can see the mounts are the same, just don't know about the distance between them.

[Alexdaredevilz]

Sorry forgot you needed a manual rack, I'm still half asleep

[whitewolf]

Will rimmers post to the usa? I don't know the current conversion rate but might be worth a look into.

[Astacus]

Vixen parts list says the rack is an ordinary Spitfire/Herald rack, for which, I believe, high ratio racks are available.

http://www.zen11896.zen.co.uk/vixen/parts/steering...

Also, rack mounts were discussed some time ago, this might help:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=948...

Edited by Astacus on Wednesday 15th August 09:29

[Slow M]

Why not rebuild it?

Best,
B.

[yodel]

I've got a vixen S4, needed a new rack for it. Had problems sorting the correct one so had a refurb done. Asked the refurbers Kierly Clintons in Birmingham to quicken it up. They've done a great job, steering not too heavy but it is so direct it's scarey 1st time you use in anger.
Clintons do refurbs for race and rally teams especially grp 4 escorts and they ship all over the world. Really nice people to deal with.

[bluezeeland]

Steering rack according to m-fix is Triumph 2000, dunno if theres a quick rack

Txs for suggestion bout Kierly' !

[Terminator]

M-series originally used a Triumph 2000/2.5PI rack, which differed from the TR6 rack as it had longer track rods.

A TR6 quick-rack using your original track rods will do nicely. As you have a local price (USA), you are nearly sorted or try http://www.the-roadster-factory.com/indexmain.php for a comparison.

By asking on here, you get the the usual side-tracking with 'Rimmers' 'Vixen' and 'Mitsubishi'

[yodel]

Yeah my info was triumph 2000 but was sent a different designed rack twice then I lost patience and took original to kierly. Everything inside the casing was refurbed or renewed cost me £134. And I knew there would be no fitting problems cos it was my original casing.

[maicoh]

Did some researching and called Moss about the rack. It looks like the only differance will be the shorter track rods. This should be a good thing as I plan on using rod ends in place of the track rod ends. The rack comes with the alloy mounts so it looks like a fair deal. I'll try to get some photos posted of the build when it all comes together. Thanks again for the help.