[Tigers] Cleo Shelby's Tiger

[Bob Dixon]

On my last Tiger I made up a power steering unit.  Since I was autocrossing 
the car with slick 265's all around, it was really tearing up my shoulder, 
so I had to do something.

I used a power steering rack from a Miata.  Since a lot of the Spec Miata 
guys go to manual steering, the racks are easy to come by.  I made some 
brackets so that the rack just bolted in place of the Midget rack I had in 
there already.  I had to make some adapters to connect the Miata rack to the 
rod ends.  Here's the cool part, I then used an electric power steering pump 
from a Subaru XT6 I believe.  I mounted the pump behind the passenger seat. 
I had a switch on the dash that I could turn on my power steering when I 
wanted it.  I think all in all I had around $300 in the whole thing.

It worked really well and saved my shoulders.

-Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. C. Tynes" <v8tracker at gmail.com>
To: "'Jerry'" <JCMC2006 at suddenlink.net>; <tigers at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Cleo Shelby's Tiger


> Yeah, I was surprised at the price, too. I seem to remember seeing a 
> similar
> item in Street Rodder magazine for something like $1,600 a year or so ago,
> but the Flaming River one was the first one Google found for me tonight.
>
> A. C.