fitting power steering

[tang lung]

hello there could any one tell me where is the best place to have power steering fitted
around the midlands area and any idea whats the cost ?cheers

[GJR]

Hi Gary,

If you do a search on power steering there are quite a few threads that cover this and some may mention places that will do it for you...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

HTH

G

[V8 GRF]

The major problem you'll have though is the rack, it was a TVR special and of course now difficult to source.

[poorpeet]

I have been toying with fitting the electric power steering unit from the Vauxhall Corsa. The motor drives the column rather than the rack & is very compact. I have not had the dash apart to check for space yet, but it should be do able

[Sam Gamgee]

poorpeet said:

I have been toying with fitting the electric power steering unit from the Vauxhall Corsa. The motor drives the column rather than the rack & is very compact. I have not had the dash apart to check for space yet, but it should be do able

I`m sure someone was selling one on class. fairly recently fitted with eleccy power steering. Something I`ve thought about myself, thuogh itll only come into use occasionally, I guess!

Dave.

[Boosted LS1]

poorpeet said:

I have been toying with fitting the electric power steering unit from the Vauxhall Corsa. The motor drives the column rather than the rack & is very compact. I have not had the dash apart to check for space yet, but it should be do able

I've seen this fitted to a customer's cobra. It looks very do-able imo and certainlt the way forward.

Boosted.

[tang lung]

GJR said:

Hi Gary,

If you do a search on power steering there are quite a few threads that cover this and some may mention places that will do it for you...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

HTH

G

cheers thanks for that Ill check it out

[tang lung]

Boosted LS1 said:

poorpeet said:

I have been toying with fitting the electric power steering unit from the Vauxhall Corsa. The motor drives the column rather than the rack & is very compact. I have not had the dash apart to check for space yet, but it should be do able

I've seen this fitted to a customer's cobra. It looks very do-able imo and certainlt the way forward.

Boosted.

so I was talkin to someelse who mentioned that Ive not heard of that before Ill ask around cheers

[tang lung]

V8 GRF said:

The major problem you'll have though is the rack, it was a TVR special and of course now difficult to source.

I was talking to one of the guys at tvr power and he said the same thing , they dont make the rack no more hard to find and when you do tvr power said it could be as much as
£2000 fitted .

[Bluebottle]

tang lung said:

V8 GRF said:

The major problem you'll have though is the rack, it was a TVR special and of course now difficult to source.

I was talking to one of the guys at tvr power and he said the same thing , they dont make the rack no more hard to find and when you do tvr power said it could be as much as
£2000 fitted .

£650 all in to retro fit my PAS. As others have said the rack it the preverbial hens tooth to find, the rest of the kit is simple and cheap to find.
Going the electric column route seems to be getting a lot of mentions on here, but I would be a little concerned about excessive/rapid rack and uj wear as you will loose the damping effect through the steering wheel. Do these electric columns have dampers to prevent this?

[Hedgehopper]

Lots of threads on this topic. If there is room to fit electric power steering a point to take into consideration is whether or not the mounting points of the steering column are strong enough to withstand the reaction torque of the motor. The power of the original TVR pump is reacted into the rack mountings in the chassis. There is a company that makes custom electric racks but are very expensive.

[MrsDTC]

V8 GRF said:

The major problem you'll have though is the rack, it was a TVR special and of course now difficult to source.

My other half has found one, if you still need it.

It is at 'The Garage' in Compton, near Guildford. Ask for Dave Batty (I think).

Difficult to source? Nah, only if you're called David, are bald, and insist on having the last word, LOL.

Edited by MrsDTC on Friday 21st March 16:16

Edited by MrsDTC on Friday 21st March 16:16

[rev-erend]

I know Phil Johnson fitted electric PAS to his TVR .. I think it was a Griff..

and TVRLeigh was fitting an electric column to his TVR last weekend..

[dnb]

I have a Corsa 'B' column sat in my garage at the moment. It will fit in the Griff with only a minor mod to one piece of fibreglass under the dash. The Corsa 'C' unit is smaller, so should fit without any problem.

The snag is that the corsa column requires 4 bolts to hold it, and the Griff has 2. It shouldn't be hard to fabricate a bracket for this - it's definitely required due to the column weight.

Lastly, there's quite a bit of work to get the TVR UJs to match up with the end of the Corsa column. It's a bit shorter than the TVR one. Again, there should be few real problems here.