Ontopic A Thread About Butt Mustard, For Those Who Drive Automobiles
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Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
I don't have power steering in my Datsun. It's not a huge lifestyle change, provided you've got even a little bit of upper body strength.
Having seen the other side of the coin (two power steering racks on my 300ZX), I can't blame them. Long runs of hydraulic hose with consumer-level (at best) connections is a recipe for a dry reservoir and a seized pump in short order.
My 323 and tercel never had power steering. No big deal, as long as you're creeping forward/backward a bit when you steer, it's pretty easy. Above a certain speed it's no more effort, and the road feel is waaay better.
AFAIK the NSX purposely did not have power steering to enhance steering feedback at speed.
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
A power-assisted rack and pinion steering setup isn't going to have any more or less steering feedback at speed than a manual one (just going based on experience).
It is going to save a shitton of unnecessary hydraulic fuckery in a nice light weight car, though.
Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
I know when I use my (designed to be manual) manual steering rack in my Datsun, it feels much the same as the (designed to be power-assist) power-assisted rack in my 300ZX.
I lost the PS belt in my E30 about 8 months ago. Other than my wife complaining about effort required to turn it's about the same as before.
http://www.caranddriver.com/feature...ering-a-comprehensive-comparison-test-feature
May have something to do with this too? Hydraulic to manual vs EHPS to manual.
Specifically this part.
"Electrically assisted power steering (EPS) is the latest technological cross we bear. Replacing hydraulic assist with a computer-controlled electric motor seemed like a reasonable idea when it first surfaced. Someday every car control will be by-wire; today’s EPS looks like a step in that direction. But in the past decade of driving EPS-equipped cars, we’ve found them lacking in feel, poorly tuned, and sometimes simply weird in comparison with the hydraulic-assist setups that have benefited from more than half a century of development."
Where the fuck is the quote option, anyway? @fly
"Electrically assisted power steering (EPS) is the latest technological cross we bear. Replacing hydraulic assist with a computer-controlled electric motor seemed like a reasonable idea when it first surfaced. Someday every car control will be by-wire; today’s EPS looks like a step in that direction. But in the past decade of driving EPS-equipped cars, we’ve found them lacking in feel, poorly tuned, and sometimes simply weird in comparison with the hydraulic-assist setups that have benefited from more than half a century of development."
Where the fuck is the quote option, anyway? @fly
Not for quoting other members, but so I could quote from an article or something.
Anyway, from here forward I will just quote someone, delete what they said and use that. Or just type it. The old forum had a button for it.
It's one of the icons in the reply window... It will drop down with several options.
Hmm there are no icons in my reply window. If I hit more it just opens a blank box...
You using dark theme?
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