[Jack21]

Did you ever try steering a power steering car when the engine (and power steering pump) stopped running? Doesn't work too well, does it. So, don't put a power rack in a manual steering car. Use a manual rack.

The most popular manual rack seems to be the Flaming River '74 - '78 MII.

For a complete treatise on the MII front suspension, go to Heidts.com and read their tech section.

I'm using a power steering setup with a '79 - '85 (Fox body) high effort, standard ratio power rack. (And I love it.) The later rack has a slightly shorter mounting bolt hole c/c width, and the mounting bolt centerline to the rack centerline is slightly shorter. Used offset rack bushings to position the late rack to more closely match the MII original rack centerline position. This was done to minimize any potential bump steer problems.

Since this is a manual rack question, I won't elaborate on MII power steering setups for Cobras other than say, It can be done, and it works quite well. Start a new thread and we'll go into it.