The solution is a short extension bar with some 10 11 tie rods.
Center take off rack and pinion.
We are just using the center take off rack and pinion to create something similar to the unisteer.
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The cavalier rack is a center take off grand am sunbird etc used successfully on many conversions see the wiki swapping to rack and pinion steeriing cavalier rack install.
A center take off rack and pinion steering apparatus includes a cylindrical rack housing having an elongate hole extending in a longitudinal direction a mounting bracket for mounting ends of a.
The next problem is that the stock tie rods off the center takeoff rack are too long.
The rack pinion comes mounted to a one piece mounting bracket that bolts up to the frame using the same holes that held up the steering box and idler arm.
It would look like this but the tie rods would connect to two idler arms.
You have to build a new mount and extension bar that attaches to the rack where the tie rods use to connect if you remove the intrepid tie rods and mount from the rack you can then bolt the extension bar to it.
This is a rear steer center take off style rack and pinion with a ball center bar that exactly matches the center link of the stock suspension for the 60 64 fords.
I quickly realized that the center link would pull away from the rack as it rotates around the idler arms radius.