electric power steering???

[Andy chimaera]

i've heard people talk about electic power steering for chimaeras and im curious as to what it is, whats invloved, cost and how much lighter it makes the turning, oh and where you get it from, i have a 400 chim, non power steering obviously lol, its not that the steering is that heavy but if it was a simple ugrade, id concider it, ive sort of looked into finding a normal hydrolic steering rack for it, but left it when i thought it was too expensive or more trouble than its worth cos they are like rocking horse poo poos too lol

[Colin RedGriff]

Might be worth calling Racing Green I think they offer an electric conversion. I think they also have a demonstrator

[K4TRV]

Try the search facility (advanced).

This is one link:http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=887651&hw=+%2Belectric+%2Bsteering&nmt=epas,%20electric%20power%20steering

HTH

Trev

[Barkychoc]

It uses a vauxhall corsa B (earlier model) steering column. Electric as in it uses an electric motor to assist the steering not hydraulics.
Search on ebay for Corsa electric steering and you'll probably find most of the bits you need.

I think you need the column, ECU and an additional box of tricks that allows you to vary the assistance - not sure but I think this replaces the speed input from the corsa engine ECU.

[Andy chimaera]

very informative, thanks all!!!!, ill look into it