Steering effort for manual 16:1 - should it be this high?

this is from @jimharvard who posted a pretty lengthy write up here some time ago pertaining to his '69 383 Barracuda

quote "the bottom line appears to be - if you have MANUAL steering on your A-body, you can put the Borgeson POWER steering box on in exactly the same space. if you have the large, OEM mopar power steering box and you switch to the Borgeson power steering box, you'll have between 1-2" MORE space between your original OEM power steering box and the engine." unquote
Borgeson on the right, oem on the left
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