I removed original steering rack 3 years ago as it had gotten loose feeling to the point of being scary. Fooled around for a couple years and decided I did not have skills to determine if it was worth rebuilding so took it to reputable specialty shop who confirmed rack was too worn to reuse. We then decided to order one of those new spitfire racks and look at adding extensions but as many have discovered there is nothing to thread our extensions to between rack and tie rod.
Their next suggestion was to add the extensions between the tie rod and tie rod end like in the S1 and early S2(?). I was, at first appalled, at the prospect of additional bump steer due to arc of steering not matching arc of suspension and the subsequent bump steer. I did authorize them to have machine shop make extensions from specs of early Europas. I installed rack, took it for alignment and although I've only driven it 20-30 miles it seems pretty sweet. Steering is so sensitive to input I might want to put my original larger steering wheel back until I adjust and I did get the original ratio rack.
