Okay, 3 month recap. Finally, I have an additional box now put in the car. Quite a bit I learned about this during the process. I would let anyone doing this install know to insure you do not have quick-ratio Pitman and Idler arm. This did not lighten the pressure to turn the steering wheel, but with the longer ratio arms, the steering is a little glitchy when turning through the radius. It would get easy/hard/easy, and after switching the Pitman/Idler arm, that went away.
Once I had done all the research I could do with Peter's help, I ended up taking the car to a company here in Bandera that ran diagnostics on the system. That was where the idea for using the OEM Pitman/Idler arm came in. I switched those, and returned the previous pump that was the small-sector shaft, and purchased the large-sector shaft.
At the end of the day, the steering is stiff, but useable. It is stiffer than I would like, but it does drive better than my wife's Mercedes.
The QA1 suspension I believe is what the increased stiffness is a result of. Everything bolted up just fine, but with the poly bushings and not having stamped steel control arms and k-member stiffens everything already. This is just an assumption, since I did not switch everything back to see if that made the steering less stiff. After 3 months of swapping parts, taking apart the pump, and towing it to Bandera Texas, it is back on the road.
One last caveat to this was the fact I had a broken motor mount. I didn't realize that until I left last week from getting the alignment done. When I went to leave the shop I accidentally stepped on the accelerator a little hard (go figure), and felt the unmistakable little hop when the car launched. I took the old mount off, and installed a new mount. This actually stabilized the car even more, and made the steering more reliable.