remove the power steering?

njoliver

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well I was at mid ohio last weekend looking at some cars and seen that they use manual racks in alot of the cars. now I am thinking of doing. I am building a mild road race car. I already have 15:1 steering ratio. but I would like to get rid of a pulley and clean the engine bay up. any one have one on their street car, and can you take turns like you can with P/S? I have a truck with out power steering but it has the power rack, so I can not turn for the life of me. but I do get good road feel
 
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Im not really sure what the question is, i think those road race guys have specific steering racks for the road racing, and i would think its not comparable to the flaming river rack that most of us are using here. If you do it make sure you get a dedicated rack and not just bypass your power stuff, thats a real hassle.

I have a manual rack, and drive on the street all the time, 3pt turns arent that fun but when the car has ANY kind of movement, the wheel frees itself up and turning isnt bad
 
its not a problem at all with skinnies, which you obviously wont have with a road course car. I dont know a whole lot about road race set-ups but i would say there are manual racks made for that purpose.
 
I bought the summit manual steering rack kit and put it on last weekend. It's not bad at all. It's definitely easier than turning compared to having the power steering rack on without the pump hooked up. It's not my daily driver so I don't mind it.