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The wild card is this.....has the steering rack has been replaced before? If the OP has owned the car since new and knows for certain that the original rack is still in the car, then the tag/ID is a help. Otherwise....well, you know the answer.
To make things worse -- there've been documented cases of remanufactured racks where the inner tie-rod boot ID method doesn't work because they've used the "other" style on the "other" rack. Nonetheless, that's the method I'd start with. And then, order your replacement parts/rack from a reputable parts house that will let you return it if, indeed, it turns out that what you got doesn't fit what you have.
And, for anyone else following along -- if you happen to have a V8-swapped car, motor mount arrangements often interfere with the housing around the pinion on certain racks. There were 3 different CAM racks and 3 different ZF racks used over the years. On a 4 cylinder/6 cylinder OEM powerplant car, they're all interchangeable. However, they may NOT be interchangeable if a V8 has been swapped in. Last rack change on mine, it was the 4th rack that showed up that matched the one that was in my car (which wasn't the original one....) and would clear my Ford 5.0L motor mount arrangement. Big kudos to my buddy Dee at Advance Auto that kept taking the one that wouldn't fit back and ordering me another one til we got a remanufactured unit that matched the one that was in the car.
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