<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:black;">Buck, you might agree, better to address the issues which lead to a need for power steering rather than throw boost at it... ;)</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:black;">Mike<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Buck Trippel via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net><br>To: 'michael king' <michael.s.king@gmail.com>; 'Lance Beauchamp' <blance598@gmail.com><br>Cc: 'Tigers Den' <Tigers@autox.team.net><br>Sent: Sun, Aug 16, 2020 6:57 pm<br>Subject: Re: [Tigers] Power steering<br><br></div><div id="yiv9199101606"><style>#yiv9199101606 #yiv9199101606 --    _filtered {}  _filtered {} #yiv9199101606   #yiv9199101606 p.yiv9199101606MsoNormal, #yiv9199101606 li.yiv9199101606MsoNormal, #yiv9199101606 div.yiv9199101606MsoNormal  {margin:0in;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;} #yiv9199101606 a:link, #yiv9199101606 span.yiv9199101606MsoHyperlink  {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv9199101606 .yiv9199101606MsoChpDefault  {font-family:sans-serif;}  _filtered {} #yiv9199101606 div.yiv9199101606WordSection1  {} #yiv9199101606 </style><div><div class="yiv9199101606WordSection1"><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">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. </p><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">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.) </p><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">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.</p><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">Buck Trippel</p><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p><div class="yiv9199101606yqt5615331539" id="yiv9199101606yqt06545"><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Tigers <tigers-bounces@autox.team.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>michael king via Tigers<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 16, 2020 6:38 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Lance Beauchamp <blance598@gmail.com><br clear="none"><b>Cc:</b> Tiger Club. Submission <tigers@autox.team.net><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tigers] Power steering</p></div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p><div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">There are several ways to introduce power steering to the Tiger,</p><div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p></div><div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">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..</p></div><div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p></div><div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">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</p></div><div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p></div><div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p></div></div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p><div><div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 11:23, Lance Beauchamp via Tigers <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net">tigers@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;"><div><div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">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. </p></div><div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  Beau</p></div><div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p></div><div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal">  </p></div></div><p class="yiv9199101606MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt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