prossi

i was told by someone at auto atlanta that a manual pinto rack bolts right in a 951. Has anyone done this or have any info on this like what year rack and how the conversion went?

Mike C.

I once drove a friend's manual rack Pinto and it was awful. Sloppy, wallowing, hideous handling. Sure, a good part of that was the suspension (the car was low mileage too)... Do it right and get an OE used rack. If you do a search on this forum you will also find that AA doesn't have the best reputation either....

J Berk

+ 1 on the search for AA's poor reputation.

So someone with a less than good rep is telling you to bolt a Pinto part to your Porsche.....Run man...run fast !

75ohm

No kidding... jeez.

Legoland951

I think its harder to find a pinto anything compared to 951 parts.

StoogeMoe

You wouldn't want to get rear-ended if you put that Pinto rack on.

prossi

actually its pretty easy to find the racks and i have heard from other places that people use them on their 944 race cars the racks are alot cheaper and bolt right in without any mods or other parts needed, i just need to know if anyone here has done it and what its like to do

Kurt R

Looking at the rack pictures on ebay I don't see any way the Pinto rack would bolt up without some fabrication. Lots of street rods use that rack.

prossi

there are 2 different ones the early pinto rack seems like it would the later one has some large mounting points on it

J Berk

hmmm...the exploding pinto combined with the unintended acceleration genes that are built into the "audi" in our cars !

Wouldn't it be like crossing the streams ? (guess the movie)

Airflite40

ghostbusters

CurtP

Oh. I was thinking it was a golden shower porno kind of thing...

prossi

sooo anyone actually have an answer that will help me?

hacker-pschorr

Yes
Why don't you go buy a Pinto rack, install it and get back to us.

Check car-parts.com for one close to you. I found Sisco's R & R Inc in Fairbury (about 70 miles from Naperville) has two 1979 manual Pinto racks in stock.

Give them a call: 888-394-4700 / (815) 692-2407

Let us know how it woked out for you.

Kurt R

Like I said before compact Ford parts are used in street rods and drag cars. Wilwood and Flaming River both make a repro rack, you can probably find the dimensions online and compare them to your own rack. It looks to me like the early Pinto rack mounts to a horizontal surface, where the Porsche rack mounts to a vertical surface, so you may have to fabricate something to mount it.

Flaming River specs: This unit weighs only 12lbs with steering specifications of 3.75 turns lock-to-lock; rack travel 5.25"; overall length 45 1/2 inches.

They also make one 5" narrower.