Electric Power Steering

b6281t · March 04, 2015, 11:48:48 PM

I believe your taking about the column support bracket I removed to make room for my install. Three of the four bolts holding my firewall mount were used on the column support bracket. I used the pillow block housing because it was quick and easy.

Bob

b6281t · March 04, 2015, 11:58:48 PM

Here is another view of my mount

Bob

b6281t · March 07, 2015, 10:38:13 PM

Getting closer, had to use 1" spacer ECM and modify the defroster with a 1 1/4" id exhaust tubing bend

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Bob

b6281t · March 07, 2015, 10:39:42 PM

I ment to say 1" spacer under the ECM
Bob

MGBV8 · March 09, 2015, 12:38:13 PM

Just for the Record, I did not spill the beans. Mikey spilled his own beans! BTW this thread was started in 2011.

QuoteRe: Electric power rack steering
Posted by: Capt'n Moorgone
Date: November 11, 2014 08:09AM

Picked one from an '05 Equinox for a winter project. I've been thinking about a conversion for a couple years. At these prices, it's a no brainer! Can't wait to get it worked out. Mike

b6281t · March 16, 2015, 10:06:47 PM

Finished my conversion and drove my MG, what a difference. Low speed maneuvering and parking is easy one handed operation now. Once out on the road dial out the assist and car drives like stock.

ready for final install

Attaching control box and fuse holder to mounting bracket made for clean tidy wiring.

Charles · March 22, 2015, 10:16:53 PM

Robert S. Good show. Neat the way you did it. After all we don't got no stinking rule book.
charles

b6281t · March 26, 2015, 09:37:26 PM

Thanks Charles I appreciate the thumbs up.
Bob

MGBV8 · March 30, 2015, 09:10:28 AM

I found out from Mike Moor that this disease is called EPS. It must be contagious cause it seems to be quite rampant here.

May have to have an EPS therapy session at the Indy Meet!

Capt'n Moorgone · April 06, 2015, 12:34:38 PM

Bob has a great solution for hiding the unit up under the dash. Nice job Bob!

Beware, EPS is very contagious! I noticed the seller of the control box has sold over 800 units. That's up from 400, just since November. If anyone has caught the disease and needs the cure, I would be willing to supply it. Send me a PM.

b6281t · April 28, 2015, 09:34:04 AM

There may be a few EPS deniers out there, the flat earth types. I love this conversion its made my MGB feel like the light nimble sports car that it should be.

BlownMGB-V8 · April 28, 2015, 10:05:07 AM

Dan B told me he recently drove a rental Celica (Corolla?) which had paddle shift and almost certainly EPS. Might be a good donor vehicle for the whole column? Hmmm...

Of course, I already have the paddle shifters made up and I like the stock steering wheel but the EPS on that car might be even more compact.

Jim

MGBV8 · April 28, 2015, 12:23:47 PM

Robert,

The Earth is neither flat nor round. It is an illusion!

BlownMGB-V8 · April 28, 2015, 05:01:35 PM

The earth is an illusion? Funny, it didn't feel like an illusion last time I fell down, but maybe that was an illusion too...

MGBV8 · April 28, 2015, 07:13:15 PM

Of course it was.

Dan B · April 28, 2015, 08:19:02 PM

It was a Corolla. Go figure!

DiDueColpi · April 28, 2015, 10:43:23 PM

Maybe it was an illusion Jim.

Did you fall down onto the earth.....or did the earth fall up into you?

oooooohhhhhh.

Or really, did it happen at all?

BlownMGB-V8 · April 29, 2015, 07:53:17 AM

I'm so confused...

ex-tyke · April 29, 2015, 09:42:23 AM

QuoteI'm so confused...

Blame it on dark energy!

b6281t · April 29, 2015, 10:53:49 PM

Or flashbacks

roverman · May 19, 2015, 11:57:51 AM

Plausible deniability, there's no place like matrix, there's no place like matrix. Dorothy-dear- jus' run with your grand illusion. For some, there is no gravity, earth jus' sucks. What was the subject ??

mgb260 · July 20, 2015, 10:34:20 PM

Did any non-Power Steering guys get the chance to try the electric power steering at the BritishV8 meet?

Capt'n Moorgone · July 22, 2015, 09:16:29 PM

I vollunteered my car to several, but never seemed to get the time! Bill Yobi and Tim Duhamel did drive the autocross in it. Bill clipped the first cone turning in too fast on his first run. I'm not sure about anyone driving Charles' or Paul's cars. Lots of interest in the system. I took a unit for show and tell.

mgb260 · July 22, 2015, 09:18:24 PM

Thanks Mike! I was just curious. I think it's a great idea.

MGBV8 · July 22, 2015, 09:41:20 PM

I did not drive Mike's car this time. Man oh man, where did the time go?

I did sit in Charles Long's car in Townsend back in the spring & verified Mike's comment about one finger steering & that was with the car sitting still. Pretty cool that you can dial more or less assist as you prefer.