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Old 06-03-2007, 02:44 PM
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So much has changed since I was last working on my 65. From the looks of it tremendous changes and improvements have been made to Classic Mustang suspension, steering, and many other aspects of the car. I'm getting ready to start working on my car again and was looking at rack and pinion steering. I see flaming river is still making a kit, I'm pretty sure TCP is still making theirs. I saw a couple new kits on ebay that are a lot cheaper. Anyone have any experience with any of these. I'm planning on having my car be a daily driver with the occassional SCCA Auto-X.
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Old 06-03-2007, 08:48 PM
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Old 06-03-2007, 09:23 PM
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I have the TCP. I hear some negative things about some of the ones listed above, that have a bad"flex" problem.
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Old 10-28-2007, 08:59 PM
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I can see what the flex issue is attributed to on some of these designs. Poor and inadequate mounting point. It is very visibble with the Unisteer. The Randall's kit looks very solid. I plan on road racing so flex is not something I want. Does Randall's make a manual kit. I'm not interested in a power kit at all. I found a Flaming River kit with a column in summit for $1125. I dunno if it is wrong or there is a catch.

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...p;autoview=sku

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I can see what the flex issue is attributed to on some of these designs. Poor and inadequate mounting point. It is very visibble with the Unisteer. The Randall's kit looks very solid. I plan on road racing so flex is not something I want. Does Randall's make a manual kit. I'm not interested in a power kit at all. I found a Flaming River kit with a column in summit for $1125. I dunno if it is wrong or there is a catch.

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...p;autoview=sku
That is the kit we are using,,, so far so good... the car drives great with the kit.
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Old 10-29-2007, 11:12 AM
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Hey man, you're in Cruces? I'm in El Paso. WHich kit are you using? the flaming river or unistreer?
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Old 10-29-2007, 11:18 AM
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Hey man, you're in Cruces? I'm in El Paso. WHich kit are you using? the flaming river or unistreer?
Cool! we are neighbors!!

We are using the Flaming River manual setup.

Some time we will need to get these cars together!!
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Old 10-29-2007, 11:25 AM
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Yeah, I gotta get mine running though. Damn thing has been sitting for 6 years now.
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Old 10-29-2007, 12:58 PM
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I have a steeroids kit that is power and I think they also have a manual rack now. I think mine is a very nice kit and was easy to install.
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have you done research on the AJEracing kits

http://www.ajeracing.com/64-70Mustang.php
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