flaming river manual steering box

Anyone using this. I'm asking this for a friend. He has a 64 Polara with a 440 4sdp with this steering box. He says it's way to tuff to turn. He also has a 63 Plymouth wagon with a factory manual steering box and it feels fine. This thing is way way harder to turn. he removed power steering to put this box on. could it be the alignment specs? or 235 60 15 bfg tires on the front?

As you know one is 16:1 his other is 24:1

I use one, yeah it's tuff because it's close ratio. Tougher then a stock one for sure, but I do like it's response and tightness. It's lighter then the stock manual as well.