I got a few races in at the airport auto cross events before the car suffered from crappy heat issues it never dealt with before. That power steering line is stuck between heat exchangers and just cannot be helping power steering temperatures throughout the system! The original rack just went haywire and would twitch powerfully (a, worse w/ speed, b, more once hot) to the right. I found out while passing someone and between 3-and-4 it pulled the car HARD at the cars I was passing. What a ride... I need to get some catch up pics up here!



It's gotten crazy as I've progressed in my career... I have a number of stupid, nagging items in my own cars and a few things between friends and family work that I've just sort of accumulated recently.



This damn Civic has been a project for the little brother that I'm dealing with while I also get the steering twitch-afflicted rack out.

I needed to replace the SVT axle in the thing; the inside boot was splittng from dry rot and making a big mess. All sorts of stupid little grievances and nearly-finished bits. I ran out of money to throw at the thing and made it well past Nationals with it... the borrowed time now over I need to get the few parts in my possession so I can race this damn thing again!!! While I replaced the entire rack I figured that addressing the excessive heat through this old "cooler" linewasn't a half bad idea. I would've done an engine oil cooler but I need fittings and a larger cooler by the looks of these fittings.













I need to realign the suspension and do a few few shakedown drives next before I really trust this thing fully. Oh! The damn door handle snapped internally... AGAIN! Gotta love that pot-metal b.s. they built these assemblies with.