goodbye cruel world

[travellinbob]

If you have a half decent look at any forum/car club out there, there will always be recomended tuners and also fabricators. Tuners, sure...I would pretty much only ever take my rotary to a rotary specialist. But fabricators can make bits for any. I am sure the other guys just said no due to being too busy.
 This seems to be a very worthwhile mod so hope all goes well with the search for someone to do it.
 cheers, michael.

[mullins]

Yeah and make sure you let us know who you use and how you got on.

[Don Pamponi]

Its a difficult job to get right & all these guys really want to do is engine work (make it go faster!).  It seems they can do it, but they\'re busy enough doing jobs they like & they dont want the work thank you....
Shame, because there IS a market for this.  There cannot be a 1st gen owner who would say no to a steering rack!  People buy these cars \'cos they look & sound special, but sell them on/scrap them \'cos they are so poo to actually drive due to the vintage steering box.  Personally, I\'m close to sticking it on ebay for precisely this reason.   I think its a bit short sighted of the tuning guys to refuse to address the one major flaw in these cars - if the numbers keep on dwindling to nothing then who\'s going to pay them to build all these rotary engines in the future??

[mullins]

^ Totally agree. I\'m sure there are a few pre RX-7 owners who wouldn\'t say no either!!

If you exhaust all the garages locally maybe we could look to KiwiRE or someone offshore who has done a few of these. I\'m sure there is a kit out there that could be combined with a locally sourced rack. IIRC Kiwi rally car ace Rod Millen used a 626 rack in his RX-3 back in the 70\'s.

If you like I\'ll do some digging and see what I can find.

[ArmyOfOne]

There is a company called CP Racing over in Canada that makes a steering rack conversion kit for the First Gen RX-7. I beleive the entire kit costs something around $400 US Dollars. I have helped install one of these in the past and they are a breeze. Hell if you look at the picture and the cars frame long enough you should be able to figure out how to build the mod yourself(for a lot less money).

[MikeLMR]

the CP racing kit is for LHD ... which is much easier as theres not much to have to clear on that side of the engine bay. The CP racing kit has also got a fair bit of flack for its design (uinversal joints on steering shaft operating beyond their design angles and the steering geometry is pretty suspect)

[ArmyOfOne]

Or he could try to refurbish the gear.

Heres some info on it fron the Mazdaspeed site.
http://www.mazspeed.com/steeringgear.htm

I had forgotte I was dealing with wrong hand drive cars here. My bad. lol.