Quaife Quick ratio rack and pinions for Volvo 240 and AE86 Corolla

Stumbled upon this today... Just to share and make sure you guys who want 'em know that they're out there.

http://www.autotech.com/quaife/index2.htm

and then I read on and find out they're for manual steering racks only.

WHY?

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Michael LeCompte

I'm guessing because manual racks are easier to f k with (relatively speaking) since they don't have seals and fluid and hoses etc.., Also, power racks are typically quicker ratio than their manual counterparts to begin with, so there's less incentive for someone to make a quick power rack for the above mentioned reason. I might even guess that the "quick rack" gears for the manual rack is really just the the power rack gears, modified to fit the manual rack.

tmachnik Wrote:
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> I'm guessing because manual racks are easier to f
> k with (relatively speaking) since they don't have
> seals and fluid and hoses etc.., Also, power
> racks are typically quicker ratio than their
> manual counterparts to begin with, so there's less
> incentive for someone to make a quick power rack
> for the above mentioned reason. I might even
> guess that the "quick rack" gears for the manual
> rack is really just the the power rack gears,
> modified to fit the manual rack.

No, the VW power racks are a smidge over 3 turns lock to lock while the Quaiffe manual thing is 2.5.

REAL VW Motorsport rackes were what 1,9 turns power.

That's what my 4x4 Cossie rack is vs stocker 2,7

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John Vanlandingham
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The steering column shafts are different lengths... I THINK the p/s is longer. I dont remember... but one of them is shorter then the other.

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Welcome to the cult of JVL drink the koolaid or be banned.

This table from Quaife's web site lists the lock to lock number of turns for the VW quick rack at 2.9-3.1. Why the range and not one number, I'm not sure. But I do know that I measured my power rack at exactly 3.1 turns. That's what led me to suspect they may just be modifying the VW power rack gear to fit in the VW manual rack. I'm ok with being wrong, I've never actually disassembled either rack to see how they fit together, the numbers just make it look suspicious to me.


Honda Civic, 1988-91 LHD NEW 2.83 60.435.010K $239.00
Honda Civic, 1992-95 LHD NEW 3.25 60.435.011K 239.00
Acura Integra 1994-2001 LHD NEW 3.25 60.435.011K 239.00
Toyota Corolla AE86 LHD NEW 2.5 94.435.001 279.00
Ford Escort Mk2 rack & pinion LHD 2.5 QSD1D001 209.00
Ford Sierra rack & pinion RHD 2.8 QSF9Z 219.00
Opel Manta rack & pinion RHD/LHD 2.5 QSF3B 219.00
Volvo 240 rack and pinion, LHD 2.5 -2.85 98.435.001 259.00
VW Golf Mk1/Mk2 rack and pinion kits, LHD --->2.9 -3.1<--- 10.435.001-002 295.00
Porsche 911 rack and pinion, LHD 2.5 40.435.001 395.00




Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/31/2008 10:08AM by tmachnik.

John if you could manage to scare up quick guts for Volvo for the TRW racks you could sell over a hundred of them.

The quickrack you had built for my 240 (ten years ago?) has been flawless.

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JohnLane

Overkill is consistently more fun

tmachnik Wrote:
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> This table from Quaife's web site lists the lock
> to lock number of turns for the VW quick rack at
> 2.9-3.1. Why the range and not one number, I'm
> not sure. But I do know that I measured my power
> rack at exactly 3.1 turns. That's what led me to
> suspect they may just be modifying the VW power
> rack gear to fit in the VW manual rack. I'm ok
> with being wrong, I've never actually disassembled
> either rack to see how they fit together, the
> numbers just make it look suspicious to me.
>
>
> Honda Civic, 1988-91 LHD NEW 2.83 60.435.010K
> $239.00
> Honda Civic, 1992-95 LHD NEW 3.25 60.435.011K
> 239.00
> Acura Integra 1994-2001 LHD NEW 3.25 60.435.011K
> 239.00
> Toyota Corolla AE86 LHD NEW 2.5 94.435.001 279.00
>
> Ford Escort Mk2 rack & pinion LHD 2.5 QSD1D001
> 209.00
> Ford Sierra rack & pinion RHD 2.8 QSF9Z 219.00
>
> Opel Manta rack & pinion RHD/LHD 2.5 QSF3B
> 219.00
> Volvo 240 rack and pinion, LHD 2.5 -2.85
> 98.435.001 259.00
> VW Golf Mk1/Mk2 rack and pinion kits, LHD
> --->2.9 -3.1<--- 10.435.001-002 295.00
> Porsche 911 rack and pinion, LHD 2.5 40.435.001
> 395.00
>

Tom, must be a typo cuase when Derek Bottles and I were slamming a buncha parts in his second Golf, one of those things was a Quaiffe quick rack kit, and it was about 2.5 turns.
It was realy funny cause at the time of the appropriately named SS.com there was a huge amount of speculation and I sorta asked, what the fuck with the speculation and "Opinions" , go out in the garage and turn the gawddam wheel and COUNT!

Too funny when boys were "like Wow its 3,2 " or whatever.
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>
>
> Edited 2 times. Last edit at Oct 31, 2008 by
> tmachnik.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

the corolla PS with 1.5quickener is now exactly 2.0
Bitchen. #150dollars

kris in canada recirculating his fluid might be interested "only" 280 dollars.
but I dont think corolla manual racks are that easy to find.

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Op: S.S.

I've got these guts in the garage as we speak and hang up is finding the zf rack that they were built for. Think they stopped using them in something like 76 then went to the cam style manual rack. Power steering would be quite nice but this quick man rack will be a huge improvement over whats in there now

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Zap zap my ass...