If you like junkyarding like I do, find a Fox body whether it be a Fairmont, Zephyr, or Mustang from the late 70's or early 80's, grab the manual rack AND shaft out of it. Might have to put a new rag joint on it but that's easy enough to do (parts stores have a kit for it in the help aisle). They are cheap and they work. I don't care for a "solid" steering shaft on a drag race car, the steering gets kind of "twitchy"; so you have to play with the alignment settings to remove some of it. A lot of those old fox body cars that didn't have power steering also didn't have power brakes, so if you find one, take the master cylinder off and then remove the adapter plate on the firewall. Even if you don't use it, you can sell it. Our problem out here is that finding ANY fox body in a junkyard is getting TOUGH. Local yard is a few miles from me (or about 3/4 mile as a crow flies), I check them out almost daily and they have a '93 calypso hatch that had a 2.3; and it is (and has been for over 5 years) nothing but BARE (and I mean bare/stripped) sheet metal and nothing else. Doors, glass, trim....everything is gone, and I'm surprised that the top and floors aren't gone yet. Oh, there's also an '82 GT and an 81 out there, the GT is complete except front bumper assembly (hit hard in the rear end) and the 81 is mostly a shell with tons of rust. And a FOX capri...I need to run over there & grab a bunch of stuff off of the crapi for a friend of mine. maybe new year's day.
A power rack can be modified to work just fine but it involves disassembly of the entire rack assembly which is not that much fun. I have not done it in years.