[Greg Hill]

Originally Posted by Robert Swartz

Thanks guys.

Looks like the late model S-10 (85 up) is the ticket for a manual steering conversion. Good news is, parts houses can get reman boxes, so, this is solved. From what I'm reading, this is a straight up bolt in swap, uses the current PS pittman arm and bolts onto the shaft.


The master cylinder is going to take a bit more research. There are manual brake units listed for this vehicle (1979 Firebird body), just need to be able to support front disc/rear drum brakes. Have also learned that Wilwood makes a replacement aluminum caliper for the metric front brakes, same as this car. Here again, I realise, this is far from an ultimate setup. A better braking system can come later. At issue presently, is making sure the car can stop and is safe. The main advantage of a racing brake system, admit it will stop nice but will be the lighter rotating mass, eliminating centrifugal weight, which equates to elasped time.

Robert Swartz

Bob, when we built my son Andrew's car we used a strange 1 1/8 bore aluminum M/C. The only thing we had to do was elongate the bolt hole where it bolts to the firewall. We used the stock camaro rod going into the master cylinder. The cost was less than $100 from Strange.