Guide Me Through Manual Steering

72DMag said

Yes, the car was running with this setup and a small block but the owner wants to go with a 440 now and fitting the block yet alone the headers with the steering slanted is a pain. Was running the stock front end with the ball joints switched. Tires had no issues. Rack seems fine but I was going to replace tie rods and have no idea what car its off of.

Thanks for the help hopefully I can figure out what this guy has. Helping out a friend.

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Stock lower ball joints switched so the steering arm faces forward?

Yeah that's an Ackerman disaster. The geometry that results is completely screwed up for turning. On a dragstrip only car guys "get away with it", but anything street going should avoid that like the plague.

Also, if the bottom plate of that K member has been removed so the rack will fit through that K isn't strong enough for street duty anymore.

Looks like a cobbled together mess to me.