mrviper

my steering rack is fucked so i thought i would atempt to put power steering on to my s2

i seen a escort turbo come to my local rolling road in leicester and it had a power steering conversion fitted to it from when it was new

so i thought that would be a good idea as i have all the bits i took off my engine when i striped it down for the ZT treatment

so what rack do i need to buy?

cheers!

Rick

keep the std rack, and use a powered column of something like a corsa.

mrviper

how the hell does that work? lol

Big Will_

Interesting thought - i'd be interested in the same...

mrviper

at work and parking at home its a night mare

im pulling on the steering wheel like a crazy pissed off gorilla to get out of tight parking spaces

power steering would be cool

i'l have to pick up a mk5 rack from the scrapper and see if i can get it to fit at the week end

andre_k

iTrader: (2)

let us know how it goes

Rab

Eat porridge and go to the gym. You big girl

Oranoco

I don't find the steering too heavy on either of my 2 and I'm used to a PAS car day to day

RS ONION

just put 120 psi in your front tyres, that will make it nice n lite

adamS2RST

IIRC the mobility MK4 escorts had pas I've seen it fitted to a couple of cars off here, don't think it's that simple though!

mrviper

mrviper

my car has a zetec turbo in there so the pump should bolt streight on with a larger belt

and there is a hydralic place ariund the corner so i can have the pipework custum made

Zetecfiesta

sounds very interesting! i havent driven my s2 properly yet so i dunno bout parking it yet! lol

Rab

For fucks sake you're all a bunch of women!!!

adamS2RST

Agreed

mrviper

i'l just blame the heavy steering on the fooked rack to avoid being called a wet pussy

Rab

mrviper You're a wet pussy

Now get your rack reconditioned and come to scotland to give me a run in your car

mrviper

you can all read about it in performance ford in a couple of months

shane

power steering would be different,but heavy! But as above ive never found the steering that bad in my s2!

Rab

Look forward to reading it mate. And to think, I very nearly bought your car from the girl you got it from!

NUTS RuS

iTrader: (35)

Mk 5 rack will need mods.

Corsa motor will fit but will mean modding the cowling under the steering wheel, which is why we never persued it for the standard cars. They cost about £175+ secondhand and you need the ECU box that controls it plus a second seperate switch controller too. They are getting common on old school cars now. We have seen places charge upto and over £1000 for fitting them

mrviper

can anyone look up a part number for this rack?

bortaf

Used to work at an Escort breakers, only P/S racks i saw FF on Mk4's were on late cabs H/J/K and one special order on a 3Dr Ghia owned by an old boy we used to service it for