Mave
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| posted on 25/10/07 at 11:40 AM |
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Why Sierra rack instead of Escort?
How come a lot of Sevens resort to the use of a shortened Sierra steering rack, instead of a shortened Escort rack? Those Escort racks can be picked
up rather cheaply, new, including quick racks.
Is the Escort rack not so easy to shorten?
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Hellfire
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| posted on 25/10/07 at 11:53 AM |
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A lot of the kits are based on the Sierra as a single donor vehicle. Hence Sierra rack 
Phil
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 25/10/07 at 11:54 AM |
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It's because the kits are designed to be built using a single donor, and when Mk2 Escorts disappeared from the roads and the scrap yards the
next obvious choice for manufacturers was to use the Sierra as the donor.
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oadamo
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| posted on 25/10/07 at 08:08 PM |
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ive been looking at a cinquecento sporting steering rack there alloy small and a two blot fixing with the holes in the rack. but got to get busy with
the tape measure whan i get time. and it looks like the joints are about where the wishbones move. anyone every used one.
soz to hijack post.
adam
[Edited on 25/10/07 by oadamo]
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Liam
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| posted on 25/10/07 at 11:03 PM |
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Cinq rack might be great but the trouble is the cinq steers from the rear of the front axle rather than infront of it. Put it in front to steer
sierra/cortina uprights and you'll have to learn to steer in the opposite direction to where you want to go .
If you know a friendly italian (in italy) maybe they could post you a LHD cinq rack which you could flip up-side-down to solve the problem.
Liam
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