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One more question on rack & pinion steering

D D-man
Can we revisit rack and pinion steering again briefly. I was thinking that if the entire length of the connecting rods were a single rack, would it matter where the pinion was? In other words can
you place the rack offset from the center and just shorten one rod by cutting and re-welding and lengthen the other rod, same process, but add a section, would the car know the difference? Would this effect the steering and/or alignment? This seems to be a simple solution to having the steering column attach directly to the unit. Forgive me if this has been previously discussed.

Darryll
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D D-man
Can we revisit rack and pinion steering again briefly. I was thinking that if the entire length of the connecting rods were a single rack, would it matter where the pinion was? In other words can
you place the rack offset from the center and just shorten one rod by cutting and re-welding and lengthen the other rod, same process, but add a section, would the car know the difference? Would this effect the steering and/or alignment? This seems to be a simple solution to having the steering column attach directly to the unit. Forgive me if this has been previously discussed.

Darryll
I Inter911
I don't think I'd trust an arm that I'd welded up...

I was trying to fit a 911 rack in and I think that if you moved it over so that the shaft was in line with your steering column then you would not have enough room left of the rack to get it to work. The left end of the rack would be too close to the wheel...

There are racks out there that do have the shaft offset and I've posted a picture of one that I picked up in my file. I also picked up the bracket from CIP (picture in my file) so I'm going to try and get that to work.

Brian
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