Bliss, whatever you decide to buy, buy it from ERA -- trust me, this is a BFD. Do you remember as a kid when you'd get a toy and the first thing you'd do is take it apart? Well, that's what I do with my ERA, I take it apart and put it back together just for the fun of it (and whether the pieces are broken or not). And I will tell you, a lot of the standard "off the shelf" parts are modified just a bit. Look at my steering rack, that's a Flaming River rack that is pretty much a Mustang II piece, but it's been ground off on the box and shortened on the ends. There are a lot of pieces like that -- the steering knuckle, water pump, ignition switch, and on and on -- all ground a little here and there. I'll tell you,
NEVER throw out a broken part on an ERA until you have the replacement part sitting right next to it on the work bench. They may have started out in life as a stock piece, but they ain't no more. Now on your steering rack, I know you have an older car, but starting with chassis 759 you have to use the Flaming River FR1502-3x3 rack, but you can't buy it from Flaming River because theirs has a 4.0 lock to lock ratio and I don't think you want that. ERA must take them apart and rebuild the ratio down to 3.1 in addition to modifying the tie rods adaptors. As I said before, I think you should get the modified Flaming River rack from ERA that they think will best fit your numbered chassis. I know it would be nice to not have to screw with welding the mounts, but once that's done the installation is pretty quick and easy. I don't know if you're going to be able to find a new Subaru rack, and one that "claims" to fit the Subaru may or may not fit your ERA -- and who knows what the lock to lock value will be or what the integrity level of the insides are. Don't cut corners -- a quality rack
will make a big difference. And, uhhh, don't buy it from Parts Planet either.
