Reply to "Possible steering rack replacement?"

I purchased one of the racks as a spare. Pretty cheap insurance given exchange w/core or new with Vendors are multiples of the $120 delivered to your door.

You may have a bit of trouble hunting down the reference to Mike Drew’s commentary on this part but here’s a direct link to that February 2014 thread. URLs to the pictures referenced in Mike’s commentary can be viewed at the links at the very bottom of the thread.
In summary, the driver’s side clamp groove needs to be slightly wider or the mounting clamp width modified, and then it’s a bolt in. It also has a superior means of adjusting and maintaining the lash compared to the OE rack. It’s not clear if it has the plastic bushing. If so, this should be replaced with bronze before use but Mike seems to suggest it wasn’t needed. It’s worth noting the differences between racks especially if you happen to have a real GT5.

As far as interface dimensions (other than the minor detail on clamp width) and visually it looks to be a pretty decent part. I haven’t checked mine beyond that. I just made note of the above and will go through it if I need to use it.

http://poca.com/pipermail/deto...February/224739.html

Best,
K