@LeMans850i posted:@panteradoug I just want to ask about the dropping the steering column feature you abandoned because it was too flimsy… Under what circumstances do you think you want to lower the steering wheel in the Pantera…
does the Yaris EPS gives you a lot more room with the steering wheel… Does it mount higher?
The Civic mechanism is fine without the Eps but the EPS is torquing the column, i.e., twisting it. I didn't want to risk that on the Civic mounting bracket.
The height adjuster bracket is just stamped steel but the main issue is it needed to occupy the same space as the EPS bracket. It was just a height adjustment device for the steering wheel for better driver position.
The Yaris unit is smaller then most, maybe the smallest and gives more toe room. It is so tight down there that anything helps BUT all Panteras look like they don't have enough foot room to begin with. That is not true as delivered new but looks like it is too tight.
It isn't so much that the EPS hangs down but needs room up in the dash to fit the motor in. You have things like the defroster duct to deal with. I have the single pod dash and internally, under the dash is different then the dual pod.
You just will not find a more compact unit then used in the Yaris and it orients to the Pantera exceptionally well if not perfectly. I'm just sharing what I discovered and am not attempting to disparage anyone else's different solution. They are ALL excellent solutions.
I am capable of engineering or more correctly reverse engineering this stuff while others are not. So they need to go to predetermined existing solutions.
I am more adventurous by nature.