[FredG]

I am going through the same thing with my car. First, understand that the manual rack you have is junk. It comes from something like a Toyota or Mazda. It has no business being in a high performance car. A lot of the play comes from the fact that it is almost 4 turns lock to lock and that is ridiculous. The best thing to do is to bag the junk manual rack and convert it to a BMW Z3 power one. That will give you 2.6 turns lock to lock and the crisp response you are looking for. Experienced Backdraft dealers like Vintage can do this for you or you can try to do it yourself. I do believe there are some Backdraft owners on this forum who have done it themselves. I am working with Miller Speed, a Backdraft Dealer in California who has done a ton of these conversions and is putting a kit together for me to install myself.