[Tigers] Power steering

[Buck Trippel]

I had a Vaxhual electric setup from the UK installed in one of out Tigers. It was great around town or on a curvey road. (you can dial in the amount of “boost” you want. 

 

Michael is very correct in that the installation was very neat, even in the LHD version I had. (about the only mod needed was to trim one of the metal defroster ducts under the driver’s side of the dash.) 

 

However I did not like the power steering unit on the open road. I never was able to get it to track as well as the stock setup on the highway. I added all the caster I could (even wedged the cross member) but I was never happy with it. It was just too twitchy on straight roads and I do a lot of long distance highway driving in our Tigers. After an 8-hour drive I just found myself working too much. I couldn’t relax. I pulled it out & went back to the stock setup. The EPS unit is now resting quietly on some shelf in the garage. On the other hand, if I were driving daily on twisty mountain roads I’d go back to it in a second.

 

Buck Trippel

 

 

From: Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of michael king via Tigers
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2020 6:38 PM
To: Lance Beauchamp <blance598 at gmail.com>
Cc: Tiger Club. Submission <tigers at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Power steering

 

There are several ways to introduce power steering to the Tiger,

 

In the UK and Australia people use the vaxhual/holden/opel astra electric setup mounted to a donor alpine top section of the steering column, very neat mounts under the dash and keeps all the stock components from the firewall forward..

 

There are also several people who have used hydraulic setups from mazda MX5 (miata) and also some subarus... these though require a change in rack

 

 

 

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 11:23, Lance Beauchamp via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net> > wrote:

Really , there is NO power steering unit that could be retrofitted to the tiger. The older I get the harder it steers when going  slow. 

  Beau

 

 

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