Steering Rack Spacers E36

Use spacer top of the steering rack mount although it can be used on the bottom.

Steering rack spacers e36.

Lose that school bus steering feel in your e30. Put some loctite on the nuts to keep them from coming loose. It simply has massive locking plates fitted to it that limit the overall rack movements. This will add 6 4mm more travel to the steering rack.

This kit includes everything needed to allows you to install a later model e36 or e46 steering rack into an e30 3 series 1984 1990. This includes the spacers and hardware to shorten the lower steering shaft and also spacers to mount the e36 or e46 steering rack on your e30 subframe. In effect this is the slowest of the e36 racks and best avoided. This is caused by the geometry changes brought about by increasing lock and will result in your steering locking and being hard to straighten.

That is a 6 to 8 upgrade. These spacers just need to be bolted in between your inner tie rod and your steering rack. Liquid thread locker on the inner tie rod thread is necessary for this upgrade because it will remove the stock lock washer. Remove these plates and it s a standard e36 rack.

An e36 steering rack from an m car is said to be 3 5 turns and the z3 steering rack is a razor quick 2 7 turns lock to lock. The spacers take up the additional space between the rack and the crossmember that occurs when swapping an e36 rack to an e30 front crossmember. Offset steering rack spacers specification. You will also need a high pressure power steering line out of an e36 but in some cases its possible to.

This kit includes the spacers and different power steering hoses you will need as the hoses are mounted differently on the z3 rack. These spacers simply and accurately solve the issue of steering going over centre. The steering u joint has to be bolted together with the rack installed in the car. Fcp euro now makes a kit to install a z3 rack into an e30.