electric power steering?
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electric power steering?
ok i want to put electric power steering on the car i searched and came up with nothing! has anyone done this? if so what parts and how to do it! thank you!
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https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...+steering+pump I found this..I don't know if it helps at all.But Hey,anything is Possible with a Little thinking(and sometimes Alot of Cash!)
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If it's leaking just remove it like I did, or fix the leak. Why go to all the trouble of custom engineering a replacement for a system just because it's currently broken. Why not just fix it?
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Originally Posted by SMonty
You've never driven a car with electric power steering.
I'm a boost creep...
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From: Auckland, New Zealand
Originally Posted by SMonty
You've never driven a car with electric power steering.
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From: London, Ontario, Canada
Originally Posted by SMonty
You've never driven a car with electric power steering.
The manual rack in the RX-7 is just so superior...
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hydraulic power steering produces max psi at high rpm, while driving, on the highway or at somepoint where steering is easiest. making the lowest psi at a dead stop (parking lot) gives barely any assist,
with electric power steering you dont have a pump to run that takes away power from the engine at high rpm when you dont need it, and at lower rpm or in a parking lot, you have full assist making turns at a dead stop easy enough to use one finger on the wheel. the assist is inverse and therefore far superior. this is the new nissan system. I'm not familiar with the rx8 but I'm sure it operates the same.
That being said my rx7 has a manual rack, and I agree with NZ that the cost to fab it up would not be worth while.
with electric power steering you dont have a pump to run that takes away power from the engine at high rpm when you dont need it, and at lower rpm or in a parking lot, you have full assist making turns at a dead stop easy enough to use one finger on the wheel. the assist is inverse and therefore far superior. this is the new nissan system. I'm not familiar with the rx8 but I'm sure it operates the same.
That being said my rx7 has a manual rack, and I agree with NZ that the cost to fab it up would not be worth while.
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The RX-8 has no hydraulics, there's essentially an electric motor intergrated into the rack.
Power steering takes hardly any power away from the car, except maybe when lots of assist is needed.
Power steering takes hardly any power away from the car, except maybe when lots of assist is needed.
I'm a boost creep...
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Originally Posted by SMonty
hydraulic power steering produces max psi at high rpm, while driving, on the highway or at somepoint where steering is easiest. making the lowest psi at a dead stop (parking lot) gives barely any assist,
with electric power steering you dont have a pump to run that takes away power from the engine at high rpm when you dont need it, and at lower rpm or in a parking lot, you have full assist making turns at a dead stop easy enough to use one finger on the wheel. the assist is inverse and therefore far superior.
with electric power steering you dont have a pump to run that takes away power from the engine at high rpm when you dont need it, and at lower rpm or in a parking lot, you have full assist making turns at a dead stop easy enough to use one finger on the wheel. the assist is inverse and therefore far superior.
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From: London, Ontario, Canada
Originally Posted by SMonty
hydraulic power steering produces max psi at high rpm, while driving, on the highway or at somepoint where steering is easiest. making the lowest psi at a dead stop (parking lot) gives barely any assist,
with electric power steering you dont have a pump to run that takes away power from the engine at high rpm when you dont need it, and at lower rpm or in a parking lot, you have full assist making turns at a dead stop easy enough to use one finger on the wheel. the assist is inverse and therefore far superior. this is the new nissan system. I'm not familiar with the rx8 but I'm sure it operates the same.
with electric power steering you dont have a pump to run that takes away power from the engine at high rpm when you dont need it, and at lower rpm or in a parking lot, you have full assist making turns at a dead stop easy enough to use one finger on the wheel. the assist is inverse and therefore far superior. this is the new nissan system. I'm not familiar with the rx8 but I'm sure it operates the same.
As for taking power away from the engine...Where do you think the electrical power to run the electric power steering comes from? The alternator...Which of course is spun by the engine.
Originally Posted by gxlbiscuit
my s2000 has electric power steering and god it feels 50 times better than anything period. hydraulic or manual
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