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Power steering yes. It stays so long as it remains working.
Pray that it breaks. The Miata's manual rack is a glorious thing. The way it loads up something mighty while cornering hard at 60 mph...it's a satisfying workout.
I ordered & translated mazdaspeed parts catalog for local Mazda performance shop guy awhile back. It's been years, but I think they had many light/street performance upgrade parts available. Of course, that's JDM though. If the pricing is crazy like Keef says, maybe they don't have full support for the U.S. Market. Kinda stupid!
Starsky & Hutch. So yes.Edit: "Duit!" What was that from? I see Vince, I see Stiller, but I can't remember the movie. Must've been mediocre.
You think I don't? Both pipes have mufflers anyway so it's not like it will be ridiculous. The Spec 2 would be the louder of the two most likely.
It honestly is about as quality a piece as you'll find. Thin-wall stainless tubing for that extra bit of lightweight. It comes with a silencer too, but you'll be too busy being rad to use it.
Meh! Manual racks do their own countersteering, and they do it with a forearm-bending ferocity. Like I said, a good workout. Still the most exhilarating driving experience I've had this side of a race kart.
Yes. I drove the Impreza around with power steering for like half a year during my car's surgery. When I finally finished my car, I drove around for a couple days all jerky and what not (while cornering). The thing was man handling me like a boos and I couldn't drive it smoothly. Especially through less than perfect roads. I'm fine now 
Nah, because then you've got the larger, heavier hardware still mounted, as well as sloshing the fluid back and forth. Manual rack probably saves 20 pounds. The ratio is still quicker than my RX7, too.
Your AW11 doesn't have an iron-block engine sitting on top the front wheels.
Or that, but you're still left with a rack that wasn't designed to be operated that way. If it were, then Mazda simply would have not filled the manual rack with seals or fluid. That would have saved a lot of money. If you're going to take the thing apart anyway you might as well replace it with a manual rack, which is still satisfyingly quick and also plenty heavy through parking lots or loaded in a corner.
