JohnSmith
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| posted on 26/6/13 at 04:58 AM |
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Short steering rack
Hello everybody!
I'm a newbie here so don't hit very hard 
So I'm bilding +442 and turns out I need really short steering rack - ideally 450mm from pivot to the other.
I measured my BMW e30 rack - it's 600 and no option of shortening really. Then I got one from Golf MK1 - it's 550mm and could be shortened
by may be 50mm at most.
Any ideas which cars could have a shorter version? How long is actually MK1 Escort rack?
Cheers,
Johny
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snapper
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| posted on 26/6/13 at 07:11 AM |
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MK do a short rack for the MK seven replica
I have one that I'm rebuilding with all new bearings may be available on eBay or here in a month or two
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britishtrident
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| posted on 26/6/13 at 09:56 AM |
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ISTR Rule of the road is drive on the right in Latvia ?
Left hand drive rack from a FWD car is no good it would steer in the opposite direction.
You either need a left hand drive rack from an Escort MK2 or Sierra.
or a right hand drive rack from a FWD car such a a MK1 or MK2 Fiesta which is then fitted upside down so as it steers in the correct direction.
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JohnSmith
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| posted on 26/6/13 at 10:41 AM |
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Yes, we drive on the right side.
I figured it out that I probably need a rack from RHD FWD car or LHD RWD car.
Is it so that all FWD cars has steering arms behind the axis? Because of drive shafts?
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iank
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| posted on 26/6/13 at 10:43 AM |
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Fiat Seicento/Cinquicento rack is very short, get one from a RHD UK car and as britishtrident says it should work the right way around.
Russbost might have the measurements to hand as he uses them on the Furore.
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JohnSmith
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| posted on 27/6/13 at 04:49 AM |
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Thanks everybody for your input!
After a bit of pondering I figured that Smarts have really short steering racks. So I got one yesterday from a scraped Smart (Four two?). The rack
itself (without pivots) is 360mm long, pivot to pivot will probably be in range of 400mm, I might even need to extend it slightly. Body is only 240mm
long.
Only downside it's not particulary quick - 4.25 turns but I guess I can live with that.
Johny
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britishtrident
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| posted on 27/6/13 at 07:07 PM |
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Make 100% sure it will turn your steering arms the right way I don't know Smarts but I have a feeling it will give backwards steering ie turn
the wheel right the car will turn left.
[Edited on 27/6/13 by britishtrident]
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JohnSmith
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| posted on 28/6/13 at 07:52 AM |
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Sure, I have checked already.
Smarts are RWD cars.
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