steering rack ratios?

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samuraibaz
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Post Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:37 pm

Am trying to find out which steering rack conversion has shortest ratio? i am removing/blanking power steering as much as possible?
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Post Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:42 pm

an e36 p/s rack is 3.2 turns ans an e46 club sport p/s rack is 3.0 turns .
there is only one manual steering rack for an e30 as far as i know and i'd imagine that to be over 4 turns the same as the e30 p/s rack .
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Post Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:51 pm

e36 rack does me nice