1967 barracuda manual steering box recommendations

clementine said

Im thinking that with a BB and manual steering, 20:1 is good. I am pretty good at 'keepin her movin' and not putting myself in a position of having to crank the wheel, what say you @72bluNblu? Would you go for the 16 and keep the gunshow and core stremph up? Im keeping the stock steering wheeel.

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It’s really a personal preference. My Duster has a small block but I still run iron heads, so it’s not as light as it could be and I run a 16:1 Flaming River box. I’ve also got 275/35/18’s up front and +6.5° of caster and I still like the 16:1 box. It’s great once you’re going 15mph or more. Although yeah, if I lived downtown and was parallel parking it everyday I’d probably feel differently. You get used to it pretty quickly, you just plan a little so you’re doing all your steering while you’re still moving.

I haven’t run a 20:1 box, I would think it would be a good compromise though between the too many turns on the 24:1 box and the “Armstrong” nature of the 16:1 box.