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    Ok so does a quaife bolt into a 70 rack?

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    86 rack has more lock unless you get a jdm kesev rack. thats what im gathering from this thread. i take it most of this information is relative to how finely tuned your car is?

    how hard is it to take the rack out of the pinion? is it possible to replace ke70 rack with 86 wrack whilst keeping the same pinion?

    last but not least is what biggo said plausable? is just cutting teeth in a worthy idea or destined for trouble? strength is the key issue for me.
    you are passing another ke70

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    I just emailed Palmside and they said that the quaife does fit into a 70 rack. Hopefully they are right!

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    OK for you tech nuts (HEN?)

    For my MX73 Cressida i have manual steer.

    Im using my ke70 rack which is considerably shorter than the P/S cressida one was.

    Looking for a replacement that is of the same length as the cressida one, as some have suggested that the shorter rack will leade to bump steer because of the different angle between the LCA and so on and so forth..

    so im thinking? ra celica? thats all i can think of. any confirmation would be appreciated? or measurments people have

    Thanks

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    i would think an RA60 manual rack might work in your situation. they are similar cars so your chances might be good.

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    hmm surprising no-one has made a pun type joke about getting their hands on a good rack.

    anyway quafe rack will not give you bump steer, I do not believe that there is any factory dialed in bump steer. Lock spacers on the other hand will.

    I guess it's also worth pointing out that all toyota rack ends can easily be modified in a lathe for more steering lock.
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    LOLOL sam. never thought of it really. but LOL

    can you please elaborate sam? wouldnt machining down the rack end reduce lock, as it almost the opposite of a lock spacer? correct me as i am probably wrong.

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    err I mean inner tie rod ends not the outer part of the rack. The theory goes a lock spacer is small enough to fit into the rack end, if there is a step machined into the end of the inner tie rods they can move further into the rack housing itself istead of acting as the hard steering lock. I havent tried it yet but I can't see why I would be any issue at all modding these on any lathe. I will try it soon on my car. This is what Jonny R has been selling on ebay and mailing off 6 months after the auction has ended.

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    -EDIT-

    Thought i had <2.5 turns lock to lock,

    Turns out the steering arm hits the bolt head for the castor rod when the suspension is completely unloaded LOL

    Have 144mm and 3.3ish.

    Another odd thing i noticed though, is (although i havent had a wheel alignment, purely by eye and a few measurements)

    The tie rod is hitting the LCA on lock, BEFORE putting in a lockspacer, on both sides!.. so i'm not going to bother putting it in. fucks me why, it didnt on previous car with exact same setup...

    86 struts
    xt130 lca - stoppers cut off
    pwr steer arms
    50mm rca - was 40, but cant see it affecting the issue much/at all?
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    bringing this thread back, just bought a quick rack and installed it. Is it really that bad to use when drifting? is it worth getting rid of the quaife rack and getting an ae86 rack?

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