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rack and pinion in FED ?

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wideopen231:
Ok purist calm down. LOL Looking at doing something different next winter and researching parts.  I want to build suspension for front of dragster. One prblem would be drag link. I can make a pivot at same point as chassis, which may or may not work. I can use a rack and pinion set up, running steering rod down side similar to drag link and thru tube in tank to a rack and pinion which I think will eliminate the problem all together. We are not talking oving 2 inches or nothing I figure inch at best for chassis. I have tested it on FED and it does move wheel ever so slightly and may or may not be issue. 150 or so is not were I want to find out.. I know it is not period correct or anything like it. I am bracket racing and driving the stripe and hitting brakes is part of it. Not to mention cpl local tracks suck on top end.

Question have any of you had a fed with rack and pinion and thoughts on ratio. Asking about ratio because i seem to remember that was issue that Garlits changed that made rear engine drivable.

wideopen231:
One thing I was concerned about my not be issue. Ratio. Funny car style box is 10:1 and rack and pinion is 12 :1. I thought bigger difference.Rereading with second set of eyes corrected that. NOT LOL.

JEFF/21C:
The ratio  is no biggie you can change the lenght  of the steering arms to speed up or slow down  and will make heavy or light to steer

Paul New:
One of the FED’s I race against has a rack it seems to work fine 6.80’s 202

wideopen231:
Thanks for replys. Would like to think I could run 200 plus,maybe tipping the jug with heavy dose of go fast juice.LOL

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