This is MY 67 Camaro

[RdHuggr68]

Wow Michael everything is looking great are you spraying the subframe or having it powdercoated?
Kevin

[Sonar Chief]

Originally Posted by waynieZ

Now that Santa brought you this to continue with the build you'll forget all about the snow and cold once you get into it. Nice!

What snow? As long as it stays outa my garage I'm good. No snow up there?

Originally Posted by RdHuggr68

Wow Michael everything is looking great are you spraying the subframe or having it powdercoated?
Kevin

Kevin ... I'm gonna just paint it myself when I do the underside of the Camaro, that's the plan anyway?

[coolwelder62]

Aftermarket rack's are slightly different then (FOMOCO) made racks. I test fit every frame w/a rack so I know the gusset will clear. On the mullet car john used a flaming river rack, I needed to grind some of the gusset back to clear it also. But a real ford rack fits.

[Sonar Chief]

Originally Posted by coolwelder62

Aftermarket rack's are slightly different then (FOMOCO) made racks. I test fit every frame w/a rack so I know the gusset will clear. On the mullet car john used a flaming river rack, I needed to grind some of the gusset back to clear it also. But a real ford rack fits.

Scott, thanks for looking, do you think I should send this back and get a FOMOCO rack then? Is this gonna hold up? I thought as a kit it would work out better, guess not.

[Build-It-Break-it]

Looks like you could grind material off the front rack mount to clear the mounting bolt.

[Sonar Chief]

Originally Posted by Build-It-Break-it

Looks like you could grind material off the front rack mount to clear the mounting bolt.

Yeah I flipped it 180* it won't fit either way ... a button head 5/8 bolt might help thou!

[Build-It-Break-it]

Originally Posted by Sonar Chief

Yeah I flipped it 180* it won't fit either way ... a button head 5/8 bolt might help thou!

Or maybe swap to an Allen head bolt? It may take awhile to tighten tho. I had the same problem on my mustang rack but I'm just going to grind the front mounting brackets where the bolts are hitting .

[coolwelder62]

Michael,I thought I would show the different Rack & Pinion steering shaft angles. See how close the shaft from the jegs rack is very close to the top of the motor mount. And how much clearance there is on john's flaming river rack. The shaft angle is steeper on your rack.

[Sonar Chief]

Scott ... I see the difference. Wouldn't it be nice if you could clock the rack to suite your needs?

Changing the angle of the dangle

Thanks Scott

[coolwelder62]

Michael, if I were you I'd cut off the 5/8 threaded rack mounting bungs that I welded on and build some mustang II style rack mount's you could keep this manual rack.I will find a photo and post up. Welders series co. builds some.These are $8.00 dollars each and will fix your problems.http://www.welderseries.com/blog/?s=must+II+rack+mount