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Scooby Newbie
Member#: 153246
Join Date: Jul 2007
Chapter/Region:
NESIC
Location: Boston
Vehicle:'00 2.5RS White |
![]() I have heard of '07 steering racks into '04 crossmembers, but my '09 sti steering rack appears to be different, especially around the steering column input shaft and the plumbing around it. It looks like I can make room by enlarging the hole that the shaft goes through in the crossmember, but I wanted to see if anyone else had tried already.
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Scooby Newbie
Member#: 153246
Join Date: Jul 2007
Chapter/Region:
NESIC
Location: Boston
Vehicle:'00 2.5RS White |
![]() After quite a bit of work, I have determined it is possible to make it fit in theory, but unfortunately the length of the inner tie rods are too long, and where they screw into the rack they use M18 threads instead of M16 which all the shorter inner tie rods use (only the later models of sti uses M18), so I can't shorten the assembly enough to fit my RS.
This might work on an Sti which has a wider track, but there wouldn't really be any benefit to it. So, now I'm looking for a '04-'06 rack :P |
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Location: Seattle, WA (Green Lake)
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Member#: 67154
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Tri-State
Location: Central NY
Vehicle:2007 Audi RS4 Avus |
![]() I'm running an '04 STi rack with narrow track GC control arms and WRX wagon axles in my BD Legacy, and there is plenty of adjustment in the outer tie rod ends to get the toe where it needs to be.
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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The '09 rack, set to it's narrowest, is still 1.5" longer end to end than my 2.5RS rack. |
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#6 |
Scooby Newbie
Member#: 67154
Join Date: Jul 2004
Chapter/Region:
Tri-State
Location: Central NY
Vehicle:2007 Audi RS4 Avus |
![]() Yep, so as you posted earlier you just need an 04-06 STi rack, which will be a direct bolt-in for the RS.
I did this writeup on what I think is the easiest and cleanest way to make the STi rack mate up to the RS steering column splines. Cliff notes: swap the rack end of the steering linkages, no cutting or welding required. |
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