Gen 1 camaro quick ratio steering box? Who makes the best one? - Lateral-g Forums

69greyghost · #1 08-09-2015, 07:51 PM

Hey guys, my steering box died on me and I'm trying to see who makes the best quick ratio box. I would prefer it to not be to expensive but does anyone have personal experience with a particular box? If so let me know.

**Sieg** · #2 08-09-2015, 08:44 PM

You could send your current box to Lee Manufacturing and have the rebuild it to quick ratio specs and firm valving. I'm very satisfied with mine and it was a quick turn around time.

69greyghost · #3 08-09-2015, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Sieg

You could send your current box to Lee Manufacturing and have the rebuild it to quick ratio specs and firm valving. I'm very satisfied with mine and it was a quick turn around time.

Where is this place? What do they charge for this service?

**Sieg** · #4 08-10-2015, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by 69greyghost

Where is this place? What do they charge for this service?

http://lee-powersteering.com/

dhutton · #5 08-10-2015, 08:54 AM

I thought Lee shut down when he retired.

Don

**Sieg** · #6 08-10-2015, 09:12 AM

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I thought Lee shut down when he retired.

Don

Crap!

Just called and they are shut down.

Sorry, hadn't heard that.

Blake Foster · #7 08-20-2015, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Sieg

http://lee-powersteering.com/

you could if they were still in business!!!
they shut down at the end of july.

we are working on a replacement as we speak. Sweet Manufacturing who makes the Racks for our new subframes also does steering boxes. they are 700 series boxes. for around the 599.00 mark. or you can do a 670 box but they are REALLY wiz Bang and about 1000.00

Build-It-Break-it · #8 08-20-2015, 04:23 PM

I think Mark at SCANDC.com still has a couple of Lee steering boxes in stock

boostedbuick · #9 09-17-2015, 06:28 AM

My first post here but have experience with Turn One. I currently use a Turn One box on my 70 Buick Skylark. I wanted to improve the steering feel and take some weight off of my 70 Skylark. For me Turn one is a 50 mile drive so went up to see the shop and talk with Jeff. The shop is not huge but very professional. Jeff used to work down the road at Saginaw Steering (now Nexteer) so has more background with these gears than anyone. He went over what would work for my Buick and some of the things I needed to correct. One of the big problems I was having is could not get all of the air out of my system. Jeff focused on the remote reservoir I was using. Seems that the reservoir design was much more important than I was aware of. My reservoir did not have baffles and the return from the pump did not go into the bottom of the reservoir. I ended up having Lee build a reservoir for me because Turn One did not have one at that time.

Next they checked my Sweet pump on the pump dyno so we knew that it matched the steering box. Finally they gave me a good deal on a box they had in stock that had a little surface rust (a few small spots that I just painted over) and have not looked back. Steering feels great now.

If you get a steering box from SC&C, ABCperformance and I think DSE you are getting a Turn One box. Many Nascar teams use the Turn One box. Cannot recommend them enough. Hope this helps.

**MCB Matt** · #10 09-22-2015, 02:21 PM

We are going to talk with Turnone about getting setup. However, it appears their boxes are B/O too!

I have an AGR in one of my cars and really like it. Nobody seems to want to give a date on the 600 series boxes... There is basically NO ETA as of right now.

Matt