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Re: Lots of varying info on steering racks - Question on the spacers
Brian,
Thanks for the great info and especially the photos. Will add to the Tribal Wisdom documentation.
"3. My research shows that our car has a foxbody '87-'93 rack. The input shaft is a 36 spline piece vs. the "Pyramid" shaft used on the '94+ racks. Also the inner tie rods are a 9/16 x 18 SAE thread vs. the M14 metric thread of the '94+ stuff."
My GTRA is chassis # 43, 2000 build year, Texas Motor Speedway version. It has what you describe. When Panoz bought the 4.6 Cobra motor and transmissions on pallets from Ford for the WC cars they also got the rack. I saw one of these several years ago still on the original pallet at Gary Jones. He got it as part of spare parts he bought as a lot from PAD. I'm not completely sure which rack they use on the GTS cars, but I believe it is also the metric one since it is available as new, not rebuilt, OEM parts.
Since these cars were frequently repaired in house, it is very likely that parts were mixed and matched to get them back on track. When I replaced mine with a rebuilt Fox Mustang rack, it bolted in and hooked up without any modifications such as cutting off the ends. Has worked just fine.
Mike
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