Better steering rack?

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

The rack just has a regular angled cut to it's teeth.
The pinion, due to the way it is angled in the housing, has very non-standard teeth. More like a helical gear.
I doubt if you'll find any stock gear that you could interchange with it.
OTOH, Quaife makes a high ratio non-power gear set for the VW rack. Not cheap I'm sure.
So, what's the problem of using the PS rack without the power like Jeff suggested?
Dan

From: "Cory Langford" <Cory_Langford@bcit.ca>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Better steering rack?







Response from the steering is not really the issue.  I already have very
good suspension, tires, etc.  The issue is when going into a hair pin
corner I don't want to have to crank the wheel 360 degrees, or so.  I would
like to have less input.  It a couple inches of turn for a tight normal
corner, and many a 1/2 to 1/4 turn for a hair pin.

Kind of like changing the gear ratios in your tranny.  Maybe I should try
to change the gear ratio in the rack :)

Oh, I like manual racks better than power steering.  I have always thought
vw's PS has a little too little of the road feel left in it - although it
is miles better than the ford truck I used to have :)

Cory Langford
?81 1.8S (for Supercharged)
?78 1.9L 8V Turbo
?86 2.1L 8V Turbo
?68 Ghia
?95 Eurovan



Neptuno <neptunonc@yahoo.com> wrote on 28/09/2006 09:25:02 AM:

> proper tires and inflation of such at a proper rate....dont mean to
> be sarcastic, but response on this car does not seem to be in the
> equation unless things are really mess up with your present unit....
> specially the Power steering types.
>
> .02 cents........ but really suspencion and tires are part of the
> workings on your question.
>
> El Tony
>
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