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Re: Holy Crap! Check this out!
[Re: Borgeson]
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04/25/12 05:37 PM
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Thanks for the info.  Is this a manual steering only box? Also what is the weight of this box? Thanks again
Last edited by 470bee; 04/25/12 05:40 PM.
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Re: Holy Crap! Check this out!
[Re: Borgeson]
#1219674
04/25/12 05:38 PM
04/25/12 05:38 PM
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Hey all. Jeff from Borgeson here. I'm not on this forum to directly sell this product as we are well distributed and have enough dealers to do that for us.
I would just like the opportunity to introduce myself and to help answer any questions or concerns on this rapidly developing new product.
The picture above and in the recent press releases and even on our own web site is of a non-functioning pre-production piece. We had to rush this one out to get it entered in new products at a recent trade show. We will have much more information such as dimensional drawings and additional photo's once the production boxes are finished.
The quick details are 14:1 ratio, smaller & lighter with a tight modern feel.
The new box will be welded just as we have done for all the other conversions we offer. This box will also have the crucial third mounting position as required.
Please post up any other technical questions an I will be happy to answer them.
Thanks Jeff, Nice to have someone with frist hand knowledge of something for once!
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Re: Holy Crap! Check this out!
[Re: 70VcodeCoronetRT]
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04/25/12 05:51 PM
04/25/12 05:51 PM
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Thanks for the info. Is this a manual steering only box? Also what is the weight of this box? Thanks again
This is a power steering box. The box internally is a 14:1 ratio, this should equate to about 2.75-3 turns lock-to-lock on the car. This will be measured off a production box. The box weighs 25lbs.
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Re: Holy Crap! Check this out!
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04/25/12 08:07 PM
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Yeah, you can't trust welds.....
"The Armies of our ancestors were lucky, in that they were not trailed by a second army of pencil pushers."
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Re: Holy Crap! Check this out!
[Re: DARTH V8Я]
#1219682
04/25/12 11:14 PM
04/25/12 11:14 PM
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Our entire freakin cars are welded together mang......
Mopar to the bone!!!
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Re: Holy Crap! Check this out!
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04/26/12 10:12 AM
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Jeff,
Thanks for repsonding to this market.
Will a 12:1 box be an option or in the future?
Does the projected price come with the hardware (customer to install) to connect our steering columns to it?
Will it run with the Saginaw or Federal power steering pumps that come stock in our cars in terms of pressure and volume.
Are these units rebuilt or new?
Is the pitman shaft 100% new with new gear? Or resplined original/used unit? Or otherwise?
Thanks,
Steve Wall
Steve,
Components exist to theoretically create a 12.7:1 box. This may be a possibility in the future pending core component availability.
The steering box comes with hose fitting adapters to be used with OEM Mopar P/S hoses. The column joint is not included in the price but available separately for much less than other Mopar column adapters on the market.
Our power steering box will be compatible with either the Saginaw or federal power steering pumps. For in-house testing and development we always use Saginaw P/S pumps. The Saginaw pumps are easily adjusted for pressure and flow to fine tune the characteristics of the power steering.
I prefer the term "re-manufactured" This steering box is actually constructed with three different production Delphi 600 series power steering boxes. The boxes are completely reworked / re-machined and reassembled with new bearings & seals. It is important to note that the Delphi 600 series boxes that we disassemble as cores show almost no signs of wear on any internal components.
The sector shaft we use is from one of the three Delphi 600 cores. It is shortened, re-splined to either 1.125" or 1.25"and re-threaded.
As with all of our power steering boxes this one will have our 3 year warranty. As to the welding comments there are only two people we trust to weld our steering boxes, they are artists. That coupled with filler material specific to our application has allowed us to produce over 10,000 welded power steering conversion boxes with no issues.
Thanks, Jeff
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Re: Holy Crap! Check this out!
[Re: BigBlockMopar]
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04/26/12 10:37 AM
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Are there any dimensional drawings available to compare your steeringbox to the stock powersteering box?
Reason for asking is that besides myseld, a number of folks are looking into installing a modernday Hemi into their Mopar A-body, while retaining powersteering.
Currently, at the driversside, the Hemi's exhaust will interfere heavily with a stock powersteering box.
It would be nice to see if your box provides more space so it won't be necessary to install a rack&pinion system for instance.
As soon as the paint dries on the first production run I will capture multiple images at different angles and create a dimensional "drawing" like we do for our other conversions. You can see one here (full sized Ford) www.borgeson.com/imageCD/800115DIM
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