Get the ball rolling!
Okay, let's get on it!
I have heard that the TCP rack is the same as was used on many mid-to-late eighties GM cars: Cavalier, Baretta, Cutlass, Cimarron, and many others. I still have to confirm it though. Maybe this weekend I will crawl under my girlfriend's Cimarron and take some measurements. Anyways, this rack is REAL common (if it is the GM one), and you can buy a new power rack for $190 on carparts.com or for dirt at a salvage yard. Other than that you need some brackets (four of them- two bolt to the lower control arm mount and two to the crossmember mounts), Some sort of a lower steering shaft bearing, and some U joints for the steering linkage. As far as I know that's it.
You might need to fabricate the centerlink, which would be easy. So say the brackets take $200 at a local machine shop (I made up that number, could be less), and you pick up the U-joints at a salvage yard for $10, it shouldn't cost you more than $500 for the exact same setup.
So the only thing preventing this are the brackets. Two choices: Buy a manual rack and measure the brackets to reproduce (which is probably against copyright laws or something), or engineer it ourselvs. Engineering it is easy if we have an accurate drawing of the Mustang's
suspension geometry. If anyone has that please send it to me.
At the worse, why not buy the manual rack form TCP and buy the power from carparts.com and just change all the hardware over and have the power rack setup for much cheaper?
Sorry this is long.
Cheers,
Dave
1964 1/2 Mustang, 289, etc...