I know this has been gone over many times.
I know so far I need a gearbox out of an 84 and up 4 cyl S10, the Camaro pitman arm works best, and it will bolt right on.

My two questions are.
I have not found a part # for a serpintine belt, or a belt length, without powersteering.
I have also read that the sway bar will be in the way, and it will have to come off.

I know the wheels will be harder to turn, yes right now it is somewhat of a DD, I don't care, I bought it to race it.

It is an 89 RS, TBI 305

 

If you bought it to race it, take the sway bar off.

 

with manual steering, you gotta be one strong dude to muscle around a track through the corners.
id get rid of the sway bar.
you are going to have to get creative on the belt.
ive seen some guys put a dummy pulley where the power steering bolted up. much like the a/c delete or the smog pump delete pulley.

 

Drag racing. Not to many turns their.
If I can find a gear box in the next week or so well find out soon enough.
Thank you for your help though.

 

Out of curiousity, what else do you have planned for the car in the near future? I'm asking because I assume there is going to be a big HP bump with a new engine to make going to manual steering worth doing. As for the sway bar, going to manual steering only seems to make sense if you're making a drag racing car that already lost the sway bar and likely is going to have skinny wheels up front.