anyone make a billet piece for our cars that will bolt up directly?

really looking to clean up the steering piece and brake section with something billet or close to it.

 

flaming River i believe makes something like this, i dont believe its a direct replacement though . You may have to modify something. There was a tech article in one of the Chevy High Performance Mags last year on it when they put a detroit speed steering box in a thirdgen.............jt

 

Heres a pic from the flaming river site..........jt

 

yeah i'm looking for something similar to that. as smooth as possible, thanks for the suggestion.

 

You have to buy the shaft/joints/etc. all seperate then cut to fit and all that from Flaming River, correct?

 

Just cause I don't want to look it up, how much does that FR piece cost.

Ben

 

The picture above is adjustable, there are differnt types. Just need to check out flamingriver.com. I had it figured out once but cant find my notes. It was in the $250-$280 range

 

That adjustable one is pretty pimp...probably will look into that...

 

I was looking into the Borgeson joints. I want SS everything in my car and IIRC Flaming River didnt have much of a selection but it has been a while.
http://www.borgeson.com/products.htm

 

Borgeson also has aluminum u-joints and shafts that you can polish up.

 

You have any experience with the aluminum ones? I would consider them if they arent going to break

 

Too much bling for my taste. I've got a modified one from an Astro Van because it uses u-joints instead of the normal type couplers. I needed it because the factory steering shaft had to be relocated to get past the headers.

 

I've think read about the astro van mod but I couldn't find the post. Doesn't it eliminate the rag joint. Where did you cut the astrovan shaft, how many inches above and below the u-joint?

Ben

 

I cut the u-joint yokes out of the astro van shaft and inserted the third gen shaft into the yokes. I then welded the u-joint yokes to the shafts. The shafts are the same size diameters. It's just that the Astro van uses u-joints and the third gen uses a rag joint at the bottom and a coupler at the top.