Rack Tech

[johl]

quick racks are the best for drifting imo. it may feel weird at first if you are used to a normal rack but i have always used one and it is one of the best mods i did to my old car. when i let friends drive it at first they didn't like it, but after a few laps they got used to it and loved the "go-kart" feeling it gives the car

[willa]

Which steering arm combos have you ran with your quick rack for extra lock johl? I'm deciding whether i should get some cut and shut knuckles or get another two teeth cut into my rack.

[johl]

i was running power steering arms only. the was less lock due to the quick rack but there was still enough lock imo. if i had the opportunity to cut more teeth before installing it i would do it in hind sight. on my new build i have jdi knuckles, amps adjustable rose jointed lca's and tie rods with my quick rack. with that setup the rack just begins to bind on full lock in one direction and stops just before bind in the other. so if you go this far you will have to either move the rack 20mm forward, get offset rack ends which are in the pipeline at MCNSports or you can make your own lock stoppers to stop the amount of lock you can use.

[Sprinter Freak]

cheers for the reply, good to hear that this new rack isn't a complete waste of time. So how many more teeth should i get cut into my rack? and when you say offset rack ends what do you mean? i thought the inner tie rods were the things that stopped the amount of lock you could use?

[nichy]

i struggle with my tie rod hitting my lca on lock as well..... and have shit loads more rack travel to play with.

havent looked at how to fix though... but alot of people dont get it . odd

t3 steering arms and tie rods
35mm t3 rca's
ke55 lca's

[johl]

if you look at the rack you will see at the end of the teeth there is a flat spot. you will have to get this area built up with material then get more teeth cut into this. i think from memory people were getting 2 or 3 cut in. some have not bothered about building up the area and some have even just done it by eye with an angle grinder. it still worked but i personally wouldn't do it like that.

google offset rack ends for an s13. its just an alternative to moving the steering rack forward. it comes with some trade offs but moving a rack forward is a lot of work

[Sprinter Freak]

on the quick racks there isn't a flat spot, it just tapers up to the normal rack size, so don't think id need to add material. does anyone know who you would get to cut more teeth into a rack? i've called a few fabrication places and they have all said they couldn't do it. would it be more something a metal machinist would do?

had a look at offset rack ends, supposedly they wear you rack ends and tie rods so don't know if i'm too keen on them, plus there isn't any readily available.

does anyone know any places in sydney that would cut extra teeth into a steering rack?

[AJPS]

i got my engineer to do mine

cut 3 extra teeth and hardened it etc

didnt cost much from memory

[Delazy]

Soooo who has the best price on these things ATM??

[Sprinter Freak]

sweet will be checking out some engineers to see who can do it