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Originally Posted by RACERAL
Are any of you guys running power steering with your FE. I plan on doing this and some have told me the steering shaft gets in the way. I'm thinking there must be a way to, with different brackets to pull this off. Or maybe its not a issue at all. Pictures would be great if you have any.
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I have installed power steering with the pump mounted to the LH cylinder head.
I designed a bracket and spacers to position the pump so that a 6 groove belt would align with a crank nose mounted pulley. I have a 65 amp Toyota Alternator mounted on the RH cylinder head like a stock Cobra and the belt picks up the crank pulley and stock water pump pulley. There is a 3rd belt rearward of the balancer that drives the dry sump pump. I used an Appleton rack modified for position and bump steer and a stock GM remote reservoir power steering pump. My steering is a little less that 1 turn lock to lock with 6 degrees of caster so non assisted steering is out of the question. The only thing I don't like is that if I blow an alternator belt I have to remove the power steering belt to fix it. It blows belts if it hits the rev limiter above 8000 so not a huge problem. The Appleton rack works with standard Cobra steering shaft except for the last u joint down which was redesigned to mate with the Appleton unit. My rack is right next to the radiator so I don't think an electric rack would package but am not sure.