BadBowtie wrote:A lot of stuff going on in that engine compartment, wow! The car looks awesome, black is sinister! Did you use a factory style power steering setup or aftermarket?
I used both stock and aftermarket parts. When I put PS into my ’72 40 years ago, I recall I went to the local wrecking yard, bought what I needed no problem. I don’t recall what car I got everything from, but I recall it was easy. I think my ’72 had a long water pump and it did had all stock front accessories. This ’73 has a short pump and all aftermarket accessories making it harder.
I used a stock GM 800 series box for a Vega/Monza from Cardone, but there are other aftermarket choices out there. My thinking was stuck back 40 years ago and now that it’s done, I should have stepped up and spend the few extra dollars for the aftermarket kit. The aftermarket kit would have been a direct fit replacement where the GM 800 series box wasn’t. I had to deal with the bigger input and output shafts and making that work. I should have researched this project a little more that’s for sure.
I used a u-joint and a short piece of 3/4" DD shaft to make the connection at the column. My fabricator friend machined my original pitman arm to fit the bigger shaft of the GM 800 series box. It was extra work and time but not too big a deal.
I used a Moroso bracket to relocate the alternator to the passenger side in front of the head closer to the center of the engine. Used a Saginaw P series pump with a Tuff Stuff bracket which had to be modified so it would bolt to the head rather than down low where it was intended because the box was in the way.
The pulleys were a nightmare. It needed a three groove pulley for both the water pump and crank so they both would line up with the alternator pulley since it was so far forward. It's mounted in front of the head not further back and partly behind the valve cover as it was on my ’72. I really like the alternator being mounted in front of the head, looks much better and it uses a shorter belt.
The three groove pulley for the water pump hit the pump casting when bolted up so I had to cut the back third groove off. Fortunately the back third groove wasn’t being used so it didn’t matter. I turned it on a friends lathe and polished it up and it looks like it was never messed with.
I had to use shims, not washers, on both the water pump and crank pulleys to get them space properly. I used a two groove pulley for the power steering pump because a single groove pulley wanted to share the same groove as the alternator and I needed it to ride on the next groove back towards the engine.
I used Monza PS hoses and they worked fine. I might have to do some minor fine tuning for the belt alignment, but I will wait and see what happens after I’ve had a chance to drive it more. For the short drive I took, I haven’t seen any problems with the edges of the belts scuffing so it might okay as is.
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Current toys:
1973 Chevy Vega GT wagon, Chevy 355, 550+HP, Chevy turbo-350 manual shift trans, narrowed Chevy 12 bolt rear end.
1992 Mazda Miata, LS1, 350 HP, Chevy 4L65E trans, Ford 7.5 IRS rear end.
Long ago (40 years) but not forgotten toys:
1972 Chevy Vega GT wagon (bought it when it was six months old!) Chevy 350, Chevy turbo-400, narrowed Chevy 10 bolt rear end. It was the second v8 Vega in Washington.
1967 VW bug, mid engine Chevy 327, Corvair four speed manual transaxle.
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