has anyone fitted electric power steering?

ive got a citroen saxo vtr power steering pump set up im tempted to fit to the 86,i could drop the pulley losses and not have to change the whole rack

anyone done something like this i can get some pointers from?

Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

I've only seen electric PS conversion among the ford crowd in the UK so far. Maybe you can learn a bit more about it on one of the forums there (turbosports.co.uk looks like a nice starting place.. great forum).

Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject:

crikey the saxo pump eats 50 amps under load,that means upgrading all power and earth cables to big fat ones,hmmm i might look at using a corsa electric colum instead

Takumi Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 244

That would be awesome!

Ryousuke Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 189 Location: Hungary

Here in Hungary 3 cars running with Suzuki Ignis el. p/s column (and quaife sterring rack). I don't know so much but its working well and it costs about 300EUR complete.

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:11 pm Post subject:

I heard that the Corsa steering is almost Plug-n-Play... don't know if it's true...

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject: electric power steering

Yes the corsa unit is very easy to fit, you need a control box to run it, I can supply these, they have to tell the corsa steering ecu that is is connected to a car, or it will turn itself off after a few minutes, the control box I make has a potentiometer to control the weight of the steering. let me know if you are interested. I have supplied over 30 of thse units to autotesters all over Ireland and england. you just need to hook up a heavy 12 supply, I need the ECU then fit my control box to it, with 40A relay etc.

Ivan