Electric Power Steering Setup

[andychalmers 0]

I've tried searching but not working. Im looking at fitting power steering to my 205 rally car. Its a 170bhp ish S16 engine on throttle bodies, 5.1 CWP with baby ZF diff. At the moment its not drivable on the track as the steering wheel snaches out of tight corners.

 

I have in the garage a 205 PAS rack & saxo power pump. Can someone tell me if this is reliable and any pros & cons?

Also if I fit this system where is the best place to mount the pump?

What wiring to use?

What pipework do I need or have made up?

 

Thanks in advance.

Andy

[Chris H 10]

I used a saxo pump on my old 309 rally car and it was spot on, i fitted the pump in the car behing the nav footrest and had the pipes go through the bulkhead to the rack and resevior in the engine bay.

 

My new car has a vauxhall pump on it and this seems fine too but i'm yet to drive the car in anger.

[tom_m 0]

yeah i'm using one.

 

i've sat mine on the battery tray with the battery on the boot.

 

 

i've had a problem with blowing fuses quite regularly, but i was using a home brew loom, i've robbed a proper one off a 106 now so hopefully that'll cure it.

 

i had a pipe made for the high pressure side from pump to rack by taking the pipe ends into my local hydraulic supplier, but used all the OE low pressure side.

[cybernck 402 1 Cars]

are they loud?

 

i've read somewhere that blowing fuses is common btw.

[andychalmers 0]

Thanks for the info, installing it sounds ok. Hows the best way to wire it up? I need it as reliable as I can get as if the fuse blows at the wrong time the cars a gonna.

[tom_m 0]

are they loud?

 

i've read somewhere that blowing fuses is common btw.

 

quite loud yeah, you can hear mine at idle, but not on the move. seems louder in my car than the OE one in my girlfriends 106 oddly enough.

 

glad to know the fuse thing is common, thou i noted that when i ripped the wiring out of the 106 it was using one of those double size style fuses despite still being a 30amp jobby, so i'm going to try that when itsnext up and running. it does only seem to happen at high duty low speed (shunting into a parking space type stuff) when you'd expect to be drawing peak current I guess.

[Chris H 10]

I think i run a 60A fuse on mine, one of the maxi blade type in a seperate feed comming straight off the kill switch.

 

Mine is noisy when just runing arround slowly but when you have an mi on TB's you cant hear it at all on a stage/....and thats with the pump mounted in the car.

[tom_m 0]

I think i run a 60A fuse on mine, one of the maxi blade type in a seperate feed comming straight off the kill switch.

 

mmm I was wondering about running a 60A, but I didn't spec my wiring to that, so maybe with the new loom I will.