Reply to "Electric Power Steering"

EZ Electric supplies a kit specific to the Pantera, and it includes modification of the column, a new u-joint and a new inner middle section. You ship your column to them in Holland and they modify it and send it back to you. David from Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada installed this system after exhaustive research on all the alternatives. Although I do not think his Pantera has been road-tested with this modification yet, I believe he found the installation straightforward with a minimum of cutting involved.

This is what he has written before on the POCA email list:

"You ship them the upper portion of your steering column and they ship it back to you with the power steering motor and control unit installed. The power steering unit is quite compact and is installed behind the cowling, so the turn signal lever and steering lock/ignition are unaffected. The middle section of the Pantera's steering column (part # 03017A) is made of two pieces; an upper male section and a lower female section. EZ Electric
supplies a new upper male section that connects to the electric power steering motor. The sheet metal that needs to be removed is isolated to the bracket that the steering column bolts to. A few minutes with a cut-off wheel should do it and the material removal doesn't really weaken the steering column mounting. It's designed to be "do able" without removing the dashboard but it would sure be a lot easier with the dash removed. You also need to mount the VSS (vehicle speed sensor) between the angle drive on your ZF and the speedo cable, run wires from the VSS to the control unit and power/ground to the power steering motor."

David posts here as David_Nunn so you can PM him for more info., or perhaps he will see this post and respond here himself.