I'm going to go COMPLETELY contrary to M3 and say I love mine disabled FM-Style.
I threaded bungs into all the holes on the rack, pulled all the lines and had no problems. It's a little heavy in parking lots as you'd expect. After a month, I was one-handing it through parking lots with no problem, and i was no longer steering too far into corners and then having to back out steering input.
Besides, the Manual rack is a slower ratio. I like my fast rack with reasonable effort and a 350MM Momo Montecarlo.
I don't think I get to go home this weekend but I can likely get you pics next weekend. I ran my rack debelted for 2 years, then the car sat for 3 and then I depistoned it so I don't have a great back-to back comparison unfortunately.
I left no fluid in the rack, just a liberal coating of bearing grease on everything before I closed it up. 8k miles later, it's still fine.