While I was able to find a lot of threads involving de-powering racks and removing power steering, I was never able to find additional information that I needed to complete my conversion.

My problem was that I wanted to keep my A/C, but this presented a problem with the stock idler pulley being smooth. So, I took off the stock idler pulley and went to Napa.

Along with deleting the power steering, I also deleted my OMP and replaced with with a Pineapple Racing pulley. OMP delete was done a while back, but figured I would mention it due to the pics. I will post the part numbers of the pulley and belts used after work.

Here is the final result:




To reduce the typing for manual rack conversion, I have included links to the threads I used:

https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generati...g-rack-942543/

https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generati...ite-up-631992/

https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generati...g-help-535227/

 

You deleted the air pump and replaced with pulley not the OMP Another thing you could do is relocate the Alternator in place of the P/S pump.

 

Lol that too! I actually deleted the air pump and omp the same time. No emissions laws over here 😁

Thanks for the tip. Might look into that once I get my car up and running again.

 

Nice work! Thanks for sharing.

 

Then you need to do something about spinning the water pump, most go electric if they do that.

 

Nice work. You left out the most important info though.

What exactly did you do at NAPA? Find some other idler pulley that fix the bearing/offset, but was grooved? Part #?

 

Sorry I haven't updated the info with part numbers yet, but I'm working 7 days a week at the moment.

After work today, I will update the OP with the two belt numbers and pulley part number.

 

Here are the belt and pulley part numbers. The Gates belt was used on the PS delete side while the Napa belt was used with the pineapple pulley side.

Sorry again for the long wait.

 

Here are the part numbers as text, so the information will still be available in 3 years when the pictures invariably disappear.

P/S Delete Pulley
NAPA Belts/Hose Part Number: 38009

P/S Delete Belt
Gates Part Number: K060365

Pineapple A/P Delete Belt
Napa Belts/Hose Part Number: 050435