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[rix313]

I recon 2.5 would be best.

Just bought myself a prefacelift rack from Chris-W if the numbers keep growing I'll get it off to Quaife

Any one on any other E30 forums? Might be handy to spread the word and fill the list.

[Jhonno]

2.5 will be fooking quick as is.. Nevermind 2.1, I would say 2.1 would be verging on too twitchy..

[jbh]

2.5 will be fooking quick as is.. Nevermind 2.1, I would say 2.1 would be verging on too twitchy..

I was thinking the same i would go with the 2.5

[gareth]

i used to run a 2.2 turn quickrack on a mk2 escort... sublime
parking is more fun though but once you're going it's not too bad. you very rarely need to cross hands or anything either which makes it a bit easier

[ross_jsy]

i would prefer a 2.1, due to the hill climb my car is being built for is very twisty.

but either way, im easy

[vladv]

Does that kit fit to lefthand rack?

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[rix313]

I've emailed them to ask if they can do LHD racks too, should know by Monday eve

[ross_jsy]

this is gathering pace nicely

gonna whip the rack off in preperation for it

[mattrs]

Is twenty the magic number then?

[rix313]

Yeah it be, although if we get close I will give them a nudge n say come on play ball

[ross_jsy]

is this posted on any other forums?

[rix313]

I've got it on bmwtrackzone but not any where else to my knowledge be good if it was

[Motorhole]

hmmm...I better start looking for a pre-facelift manual rack to rebuild

[gareth]

is it worth putting a link up here too?
http://www.bmw-rallying.co.uk/

[vladv]

Hi I tried to do a group buy a few years ago so looked into this in detail early cars have a round rack bar which means quaife can cut the teeth, later racks are triangular so you cannot get the teeth cut.

Jason

Hi I tried to do a group buy a few years ago so looked into this in detail early cars have a round rack bar which means quaife can cut the teeth, later racks are triangular so you cannot get the teeth cut.

Jason

Jason, I've compared numbers of racks at realoem.com and haven't find any differences.
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do ... 05&lang=en (316i M40 1990year)
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http://www.realoem.com/bmw/partgrp.do?m ... 05&lang=en (316 M10 1983year).

What should manual rack be rebuiled in final?

[e21Jason]

The difference is in the rack internals not something you can see on that digram strip a couple of racks down and have a look

Jason

[vladv]

The difference is in the rack internals not something you can see on that digram strip a couple of racks down and have a look

Jason

So are there any external differences to choose correct rack?

[rix313]

Ok email back from Quaife. They say they can do LHD racks too.

[vladv]

Ok email back from Quaife. They say they can do LHD racks too.

its great.
Will be donor rack needed to make quick rack or they can do new parts?

[rix313]

You will need a complete donor rack. You will then be sent the quick ratio version by Quafie and you fit it to the donor.

[vladv]

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[rhett325i]

What all is involved in installing this conversion?

[ross_jsy]

would imagine dissasembling a standard manual rack and building this into it before installing it on the car.

[vladv]

here is rebuilding of AE86 rack which my friend did. He bought rebuild kit from Quaife.

Stock contents are in bottom and the Quaife are above.

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[heavybelly]

Very interested in one of these.

A couple of things though, what is the rack type Quaife have said it will be for, E21jason says a couple of years ago they didn't have the tooling, what about now?

Also the internals are different but are they interchangeable? I'd imagine it will put people off/slow this down if you need to hunt down a very specific part in order to benefit from a quick rack.

[rix313]

It will be made up from a pre-facelift rack, seeing as that's what I've just bought lol!

I believe he was refering to the fact they didn't have tools to be able to cut triangular racks. It is true they don't have the tooling for this rack yet hence why I need 20 people on the list to proceed.

[ross_jsy]

dont worry heavybelly, there will be plenty of scrap preface povo spec cars out there to plunder a rack off

jbh did you find out if you had 2 pre facelift racks btw?

[vladv]

rix313, did you consider rebuilding of the powerstering racks? Why just manual?

And one more: sorry for my stupid question but if quife cut the teeth of the rack to make it quicker so I need to supply to them my donor rack to cut it, isn't it?

[ross_jsy]

because they don't have the tooling to make power steering quick racks

[scot]

Having a bit of a problem sourcing a manual pre facelift rack! Anybody know where i could get one? Ebay has nowt but power racks at the mo...

[scot]

Also quick question - with this being a standard e30 rack just having its internals changed this will mean i can still use my 6 branch manifold correct?

[ross_jsy]

as far as i am aware, yes.

for a rack, try emailing spadge and see if he has any