Upgrading to SN95 steering rack

I didn’t. Just ‘upgraded’ to poly bushings. No issues that I’m aware of.

Depends on how far you are going to lower it. Offset bushings can keep you from needing a bumpsteer kit. I have both on my car but I’m an idiot and lowered it a bit.

You can see mine is also very low (in the front) with some garbage ass H&R race springs. My front tires basically tuck up inside the fenders. I plan on changing all that with coilovers but for now I don’t believe I am experiencing bumpsteer. However I’m no race car driver so maybe I just don’t know what I’m looking for.

Long story is I think you can get away without offset rack bushings but if you need them just swap them in.

I can just about guarantee you are experiencing bumpsteer but like you said you may not really notice it. You just need to make sure the tie rods are parallel with the control arms when the car is on the ground and the suspension fully loaded. Is this the correct way to set the bumpsteer? No but for a street cat it’s good enough. Setting one up with the gauges is a huge pain and anytime you make a change you have to go through that whole process again. I’ve done it on a buddy’s American Iron car a couple times and it was not fun.

The boys in Charlotte have Father Time again for paint correction. I asked them to address the burned boot & PS fluid leak from the rack, and they just HMU with it's leaking internally. So, and I don't know if I was smart or dumb for this, but I nabbed this Ford-reman'd 99+ rack off of Ebay. ChatGPT tells me it's a V6 rack part number. In light of Jack Hidley's comments and what I've read here, seems like 99-04 are all substantially similar enough not to overthink this. I liked that it's a ford reman, but don't know if that really matters, either.



Then, I ordered the MM shaft. I noticed that Turn one allows for the option of '00 Cobra R valving. Might do that next time.

About the only time you will notice the Cobra rack vs the other SN95 racks is with really wide tires up front auto crossing. This is direct info from a buddy that won in American Iron with his 88 Coupe so I just took his word for it when I did the conversions on the Coupe and T-Bird. One of the best mods on either car.

The new edge rack with MM’s hybrid shaft is such a good upgrade.