Reply to "Steering Rack Mount Reinforcing"

bosswrenchMember

Hi, Chance! There was a stock steel'rack-brace' developed by Bill Stroppe for U.S-imported Panteras, that bolts between the rack & the right lower subframe. Is that what you meant? Stroppe was proud of that little brace, saying it stiffened up the handling noticably. His guys installed it on all the impoirts they could find in '71-up. It was factory-stock after mid-'72.
I've never heard of a rack mount failing, even on cars that had terminal high speed impacts with really solid parts of the world. If you use the factory bump-steer spacers (mid-'73 & up), the rack does need four slightly longer mounting bolts to compensate for the extra thickness of the spacers, but of those cars that use stock length bolts & spacers, I've not heard anything bad, either.
I did sort-of brace the lower subframe below the rack area with an aluminum angle-crossmember that doubles as a dropped-battery platform. No battery box needed this way.

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