[Bruce Edwards]

Bob,

I am not trying to start any trouble. My concern is that a 20 year old rack from a car that is not the popular is going to get harder to find and parts are going to get harder to come by. It is my understanding that the folks at Flaming River will build custom racks. As I have said before the Hunter car we built came with a very short Flaming River rack that is made for the car by them not by Hunter. I know how much of a pin in the ass it is to shorten a rack. We took a Mustang II powersteering rack cut the body down to 24 inches, machined off the piston from the rack, made and installed a link on the right side inner tie rod and installed an outside pusher cylinder then had to modify the front of the car to take the new rack, PLUS we had to tilt it way up to allow us to hook the steering shaft from the column to it. Now that was a pain.
Can you not contract with Flaming River to have the racks made up for your car at a good price that would make it cost effective for you and the customer? I know that I spend hours chasing parts for customers cars and then rebuilding the used items to be sure that my customers will have a safe and reliable car when it is completed.
Thank you for letting me know what is done to the rack to fit it to your car and I am going to recommend to my customer that he go that route and not mess with the Subaru rack.
Please understand that it is in my nature to reengineer things I see on cars. I have been doing it for 20+ years and it is not something I can stop now. We have been building and restoring cars in my shop since the late 80's and have been modifying kits since the first one we built. Most of those things we did to our fist car are now stock items on most Cobra kits I now see. The cars are also safer than the ones that were out 20 years ago and I credit all those builders and tinkerers that have been buying and building kits over the years.