[IROC383]

Guys,
1. Does anyone have any comments about swaping out the stock Kmember for the tubular Spohn version? I'm working on losing weight in the 3rd gen SPO car and wondered if anyone will acknoldge it is stong enough for road racing abuse.
2. Has anyone swaped over to the Rack and pinion sterring (Pinto) for weigh reduction?

3. What are the best headers for 3 gen vs. tranny combo for clutch fork clearence issues.
Currently use T56,LT1 version with Heddman standard not shortys.

Just need some quick easy responses on these topics.

Thanks

[Hotrodf1]

One more point for you:

I have the PA Racing K member and A arms, along with their coilover conversion kit. PA actually offers a road race version with extra gussets etc.. I'm not sure how much different it really is, but it's worked fine on my car. It was on the car when I got it, so not sure about amount of weight reduction. I actually had an a arm bolt get loose on me once, and fall out at speed. It was the front bolt, and the a arm held on with just one mount. Car didn't feel right obviously, but no damage was done. So anyway, seems like the PA stuff is ok to me.

About the rack and pinion deal - like said above, be very careful here. I had a 4th gen rack on mine (PO installed) and it resulted in about a half in of bumpsteer. It was ridiculous. I went back to the factory box setup, much happier. I think there are better places to save weight, although that is quite tempting. If you have the money for the custom rack from Sweet, you could do that. I don't know of another rack that's soooo narrow as what's needed on the third gen. I think the distance from center to center of the inner tie rods is around 17" or so. So your rack needs to be that narrow to match those pivot points. Hard to do without the custom rack.

Like TJ, I think you can spend time and get most of the weight out without spending all the money.