I am looking for a steering rack for a car with a central seat. Most racks have the pinion at an angle to the rack. Does anyone know of a steering rack where the pinion and rack are at 90 degrees? I only need the rack and pinion so the casing shape does not matter.

Thanks.

Dermot Healey will have an ex-single seater jobbie for you, no problem.

this 750MC racer uses a Fiat Punto rack iirc, scroll down the pdf and theres a cracking shot of the rack and front suspension

http://www.racekits.co.uk/Practical%20racer-%20750F%20Falcon.pdf

Article mentions Cinquecento and Seicento donors.

There's also Porsche 911

Russboss also uses the Cinq rack on the Furore
Pic here -> http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=182983

You're going to need exactly the right rack length to work with the rest of your suspension geometry, otherwise you'll get some degree of bump steer, so why not just call Titan or Jack Knight and tell them what you want, complete with choice of ratio?

In the grand scheme of things, the cost isn't that great, particularly if you only want the rack bar and pinion, not the housing.

The alternative (unless you faff about shortening/extending the rack bar) is that you have to let the tail wag the dog, with the rack length and steering arm geometry of your uprights dictating the rest of your suspension geometry, which doesn't seem sensible?

Thanks guys,

nothing suitable it appears as the Fiat rack is at a very slight angle.

Looks like I will have to spend big.

Apologies if I'm mis-reading your requirements but does anything here help? http://teamterrificracing.net/TitanNorthAmerica/SteeringRacks.html />
There's a link to their parts list on PDF at the bottom.