K-Member / Rack & Pinion Steering Suggestions

you can see it in this one

this is mine and on this side is standard
on the other side the stud was snapped, and i never reailsed for a few years after purchase, so the flat head was drilled through and a large bolt with nylock under the wing was used.... just fixing that made a noticable difference.

just doing that and adding the brake bias you can see lower left made huge improvments to sprited steert driving. feels solid and the brakes work... :)

the plate bends over the edge, maybe 1/4 of an inch which will add some rigidity to the panel as well. the lot may be welded or brazed on... hard to tell....the smooth studs i presume are similar to wheel studs with a spline.... finding a replacment was, impossible at the time, i never thought Ahhhh wheel stud, and i had no idea how to get the remains of the old one out.... it was 20 years ago and i was a young man who didn't really think about orginality and the potential future value of the car he was drilling holes in :0 . thinking about it today a big hammer and drift and replacment with a wheel stud would actually work provided the spline section aint too long.

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Nice! Thanks for posting that. It’s pretty amazing what some extra sheet metal in the right place can do to reinforce a unibody chassis!