The box you need is that 3" x 3" black box you see in Lemann's picture above. You can get it separately. That indicates to me a Toyota source.
The end of the engine is 200mm (8'') from the center of the column.
I'm not going to do this project immediately, before I have to finish reinstalling the engine in the car after repairing the lifter breakage and as I took the opportunity to replace the air conditioning compressor with a Sanden, I'm spending time with the adjustments of the support, there is very little space.
Afterwards I will have to take the car back to my body shop so that he can redo the paint that he missed the first time, so I won't take care of the EPS before spring or early summer but I'm gathering the elements when I find cheap ones on Ebay.
I found a Capri steering column in France at less than 30€ including postage, I still have to buy an ECU.
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I didn't keep a record of that dimension. I will be back under the dash soon and will try to get a number for mine but it appears that your motor is taller or maybe that is just the cover for the motor.
I don't recall an issue of it touching or coming close to touching the inside of the dash. In my single pod dash, there is a defroster grill that is supplied by a duct hose that is close to the top of the motor.
I suggested the Yaris also because as installed it orients itself in the 10 to 11 o'clock position which is pretty much ideal. There is some degree of minute adjustment to that possible by realigning your mounting bracket design.
I found and bought the correct ECU for £37 including postage and customs fees.
So I got the engine, ECU and steering column for about $100 .
I will just have to buy the control module from Paulo ANTUNES.
@rene4406 posted:I found and bought the correct ECU for £37 including postage and customs fees.
So I got the engine, ECU and steering column for about $100 .
I will just have to buy the control module from Paulo ANTUNES.
Either the manual control with the adjustable control knob or the automatic that contacts a GPS satilite are fine. I like the automatic version. There you do not need to find a location on an already cluttered interior dash panel.
I think that it gives the right feel to the steering and keeps the EPS from over-boosting the assist at high speed. It certainly is worth the cost to me.
I plan to buy the version with GPS to automatically keep a "hard" direction at high speeds.
Yes. It works well. I'm sure that there will be those that do not care for it and want power assist at 120mph?
Here in the US we can't legally see those kind of speeds. 85mph is even stretching it. We even get traffic at those speeds.
The automatic GPS control version ramps down the assist and I think by 50mph you have zero assist.
In our country too the speed limit is 80 MPH on the motorway but there are not police everywhere and it is well known that the French are very undisciplined, well the old French because the young almost all drive very slowly, often even below 80 MPH.
I opened a new topic so as not to pollute this one of LeMans850i about the adaptation of the YARIS power steering system:
None of your photos are displaying in this thread ???
Larry
For me, they are displayed
I can't see the pictures either?
I put them back in the other thread.