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[John Jaranson <johnj@grandnet.com>]

Toby Erkson and I discussed this about a year ago at some
length.  Looks like Toby beat me to the reply.  I was going to
say that noone had done this conversion yet, unless Toby was
holding out on us, but it sounds like he is not....  8^).

I agree with Toby that the Super Beetle rack might be the easiest
rack to use for this conversion, but any small manual rack
(Mustang II, etc) would probably be ok.  The geometry of the
system would need to be worked out, but us Dark Siders have
already screwed that up with lowered front ends and custom rims
with the wrong offset..... 8^)

This conversion would be more for show then anything else.  The
stock steering box works fine if it is maintained and adjusted
properly.  With our lightweight (relatively) cars and tall tires
and such, the precision of the rack & pinion system would be
pretty much lost.

Of course if you have gone the fully over to the Dark Side, with
a high HP engine, fat tires, lowered and stiffened suspension,
etc, etc, etc....it might make some difference.......

Just my 3 cents.....would like to try it some day, but have lots
of other more pressing projects like rocker rust, rear fender
rust, no interior, etc....

Later,
John Jaranson
'71 FI Auto Fasty (I want to be the first on the block with R&P
Steering)

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