There were two problems with my original attempt.
Firstly the Escort rack to Sierra column linkage was too long and posed clearance problems with the chassis, and secondly I had too many UJ's meaning I had an unsupported shaft between the column and rack:
I got rid of the modified sierra column and replaced it with a length of thick walled steel tube welded to the mx5 shaft at one end and a group4 shaft from Rally Design at the other (thus losing the UJ to the mx5 shaft).
I then replaced the old long coupling to the rack with a much shorter group4 coupling:
Now no clearance issues, and a nice direct, well supported, shaft :)
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