no p/s sucks!!!
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I'm having deja vu since we've already been over this argument.
In your case of slower speed driving on tight courses, i.e. auto-x, I can see the benefits of power steering, Damon. However, for some of us who do remove it, it is not necessarily just to make the car more "harsh" as a reminder (although I could see some people doing this).
Driving position reduces fatigue and increases muscular advantage and endurance over the car, power steering or not.
Aren't you also 6'4"?
In your case of slower speed driving on tight courses, i.e. auto-x, I can see the benefits of power steering, Damon. However, for some of us who do remove it, it is not necessarily just to make the car more "harsh" as a reminder (although I could see some people doing this).
Driving position reduces fatigue and increases muscular advantage and endurance over the car, power steering or not.
Aren't you also 6'4"?
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Originally posted by clayne
Aren't you also 6'4"?
Aren't you also 6'4"?
...and I don't just autox at "slow" speeds. The car sees track days at least several times a year while on race tires along with 20+ autox's.
"Stiffer" does not mean higher quality feedback, it just means it takes more effort to steer. Humans are more sensitive to force than displacement but once you train people to relax and concentrate in the car while they are driving they find all they need is already there. They just have to learn to "listen". Removal of the p/s is not going to improve the driver.
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I do not disagree that it is irrelevant from driver. However, to go by displacement is to gauge input and force. To go by force, is to go by force - which is innate.
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Hello-
My seating position is fine... that's not the problem. 180-degree hairpins with a radius of 10 feet and a grade of 25%+ (i.e. added downforce and therefore traction and therefore steering aligning moment when accelerating up) are the problem. These turns are so snappy that you consider downshifting into 1st gear... 2nd is lugging the engine.
Speaking of driving position, you're not supposed to clutch the wheel. You want some force feedback, but not so much that you have to brace yourself between the seat and wheel to crank it hard enough. Again, this only applies to REALLY windy spots... the kinds where the roadsigns say "5 mph" on them (which means 15-20mph for me :-). It's just too much.
Take care,
Shad
Originally posted by clayne
You need to change your seating position to be proper and remove the p/s pump.
You need to change your seating position to be proper and remove the p/s pump.
Speaking of driving position, you're not supposed to clutch the wheel. You want some force feedback, but not so much that you have to brace yourself between the seat and wheel to crank it hard enough. Again, this only applies to REALLY windy spots... the kinds where the roadsigns say "5 mph" on them (which means 15-20mph for me :-). It's just too much.
Take care,
Shad
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Personally I tend to not be too interested in those types of roads as you cannot safely come close to the apex without jumping lanes. A 5 mph turn like that puts the car on an exaggerated radius unless you jump the center.
So which is it? 9, 84, 35, Bear Creek, etc.?
So which is it? 9, 84, 35, Bear Creek, etc.?
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Originally posted by clayne
Personally I tend to not be too interested in those types of roads as you cannot safely come close to the apex without jumping lanes. A 5 mph turn like that puts the car on an exaggerated radius unless you jump the center.
So which is it? 9, 84, 35, Bear Creek, etc.?
Personally I tend to not be too interested in those types of roads as you cannot safely come close to the apex without jumping lanes. A 5 mph turn like that puts the car on an exaggerated radius unless you jump the center.
So which is it? 9, 84, 35, Bear Creek, etc.?
Where do you wander around up here? A pair of FD's snaking through the roads would be fun...
Take care,
Shad
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Originally posted by alberto_mg
Like rynberg said - if you are gonna do it, do it right.
get a full manual rack from an FC and replace the rack. just disconnecting the power steering feels like ****.
Like rynberg said - if you are gonna do it, do it right.
get a full manual rack from an FC and replace the rack. just disconnecting the power steering feels like ****.
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Aside from engine bay space....
...is there any benefit to removing the PS other than getting some engine bay space back and removing 1 more thing that can break?
I know air conditioning robs a fair amount of HP from the engine, what about the PS pump?
I know air conditioning robs a fair amount of HP from the engine, what about the PS pump?
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this sure is an interesting thread as there's plenty of opinion on both sides and i don't have a problem w any of it...
that said i think removing the power steering on my car in '99 was one of the best mods i have made. i don't think the steering effort is heavy and i believe there is no such thing as road feel with any kind of power steering. you might as well be driving a video game.
we fd owners appreciate what a great roadcar the fd is and yet the most important thing in the car, the most tactile element of it, the thing we hold on to--- with power steering---- is dumb as a stone.
secondly, i absolutlely hate front weight. my car has 48% front weight. i also hate anything in the engine compartment but the engine. obviously no power steering, no a-c, no air pump etc... it is much cooler in the engine compartment without all the heat soaked iron. changing spark plugs takes 5 minutes.
while designing the fd, mazda had 2 teams that worked for a year, couldn't talk to each other, whose sole function was to get weight out of the car... and then they decide to put power steering in it?
hey, run it if you wish. it is (was) a free country and we can't be all divorced from the same woman.
sorry... just had to get it off my chest.
I LOVE NO POWER STEERING.
howard coleman
that said i think removing the power steering on my car in '99 was one of the best mods i have made. i don't think the steering effort is heavy and i believe there is no such thing as road feel with any kind of power steering. you might as well be driving a video game.
we fd owners appreciate what a great roadcar the fd is and yet the most important thing in the car, the most tactile element of it, the thing we hold on to--- with power steering---- is dumb as a stone.
secondly, i absolutlely hate front weight. my car has 48% front weight. i also hate anything in the engine compartment but the engine. obviously no power steering, no a-c, no air pump etc... it is much cooler in the engine compartment without all the heat soaked iron. changing spark plugs takes 5 minutes.
while designing the fd, mazda had 2 teams that worked for a year, couldn't talk to each other, whose sole function was to get weight out of the car... and then they decide to put power steering in it?
hey, run it if you wish. it is (was) a free country and we can't be all divorced from the same woman.
sorry... just had to get it off my chest.
I LOVE NO POWER STEERING.
howard coleman
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Originally posted by RX7Wishing
oly shizzzly thats a big turbo.. i dunno if its just the pic or what.. But dizzzzam!!! i could almost fit my johnson in that sucker
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