many times when i have come flying around a corner and have the *** end of my car fling around with me (that way i like to drive) when i comes time to counter steer a little to keep the car going straight down the road my steering seems to freeze up on me. like as hard to turn the wheel as a manual rack when you are not moving. this distresses me. especially when i'm really putting my foot into it. so is that something wrong with my power steering? the fluid is full. and i'm pretty sure the belts are all good i checked them like a month ago when i go the car. anybody else have this happen to them?

 

You are not alone. I have the same symptomes.
The S5's have RPM adjusting PS.
The more revs, the less assist. (bad idea IMHO)
Options are:
1) pull the pump & drain & cap the rack.
2) swap to a manual rack.

I'm thinking of screwing with the pump valving.
If it works, I'll write it up. If not, I'll just pull the pump..

 

so where does it sense the engine speed? like would putting a bigger pulley on it making the pump spin slower make a difference or does it have some external sensor that lets it know the engine speed?

 

monitors tach speed from the trailing coil

 

Id imagine you could swap over to the speed sensitive ps system if you wanted. Not worth it IMHO.

 

i just want my steering wheel to not feel like it's locking up on me. i mean, what if i want to do it with one hand out the window, there's no way j/k oh well, another time another place and a bit more money

 

oh, here's an idea. how i could i fake a lower tach signal to the p/s? that would work. who cars if i have too much power steering at high speed or something like that. on my '74 charger i could've flung the steering wheel with my pinky at any speed and the wheel would fly all the way around.

 

blip. seriously, anybody know how i can fake a tach signal to the p/s. i'd love to have easy steering all the time.