feelings about the steeroids rack kit

[aany001]

hello everyone.........I am thinking about picking up one of their steering kits and would like to get some feedback on its performance.anyone have on of their racks in a 69 camaro????? I need all the info I can get.
thanks in advance.
Steve

[XcYZ]

I have no personal experience with it but I continually hear about bump steer issues. A lot of guys have good things to say about the Unisteer setup, you may want to weigh those two and see what would be best for you.

Oh, and welcome to the site. :)

[CamaroGbg]

I don´t have any personal experiance from Steeroids unit but we talked about the
Unisteer unit here http://www.lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=2727
and this unit seems to be the best solution, for me anyway ;)
No bumpsteer(or close), easy and neat installation and 2,5
turns lock-to-lock. :thumbsup:

[cslithergo]

I have one in my 69. It’s not on the road yet and I have had a few issues. One problem, which they corrected very quickly, was that the pressure hose was about 4" too short. One call and 4 days and I had a new one. The other problem I had was header clearance. I have a set of headers from Year One and they do not clear without some massaging of the #1 pipe. I would say it took over 1/4 of its dia. to clear the unit. It might be different with other headers? I do not know about bump steer although it does come with an assortment of spacers to adjust as you see fit

Will try to do a write up after some road testing, working 80 hours a week has put a dent in my progress.
chris

[aany001]

thanks to everyone for their help!!!!

[MarkM66]

From what I've seen, it actually hangs lower then the subframe. Not good at all IMO.

[69MyWay]

I have one in my 69 Camaro with 4,000 + miles of happy driving. It is very precise and clean feeling. No bump steer issues. I built custom headers with my LS1 and it worked out fine. It clears the oil pan no problem (custom pan mods for the LS1 application from a standard LS1 F body pan). A friend of mine that professionaly builds tube chassis race cars checked it out. He was pleased with how well it sat in the frame and noted the geometry is correct for the application. Bump steer can happen for a variety of reasons not all blamed on the rack as much as how the tierod ends are set to the spindle mount.

I cleaned up the coupler to the steering shaft after mounting a 1981 Vette tilt/tele column. This really cleaned things up.

http://www.mcspeed.homestead.com/files/hub_and_spacer.JPG

http://www.mcspeed.homestead.com/files/sub_frame_and_rack.JPG

http://www.mcspeed.homestead.com/files/panclearance1.JPG

http://www.mcspeed.homestead.com/files/panclearance2.JPG

Notice in this last photo how clean the firewall is where I was able to slide the steering column back behind the wall and extend just the shaft to mate into the flaming river universal joint.

http://www.mcspeed.homestead.com/files/engine_bay_painted_1.JPG