<p dir="ltr">With electric power steering, the steering wheel is no longer connected directly to the rack... If there was an obstruction to the steering, you wouldn't be able to feel it in the steering wheel.. It moves the same no matter what. As speed increases, many manufacturers reduce the amount of angle the wheel turns. They call this speed sensitive steering. They don't because of the inherent lack of feedback. Does this help explain?</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm going to be replacing my B13 SE-R power steering rack with a manual rack from an "E" model in the next year... This has even more feedback than traditional power steering racks. :)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 28, 2014 5:56 PM, "Steve Hirsch" <<a href="mailto:shirsch@ptc.com">shirsch@ptc.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Calibri">Thought I'd pose this here while the list is
enjoying a spike of activity. (That and I'm not really active in
any current forums.)<br>
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The general conclusion I draw from reading reviews and
approximately zero experience is that electrical PS systems suck
because they lack feedback. This seems to be the case across
segments, whether the cars be sporty or appliance.<br>
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I've been struggling to understand why. C&D did a article on
this a year or 2 ago but it didn't really help me much. As I
understand it, hydraulic PS systems use hydraulic pressure to push
the steering rack in one direction or the other when the rack is
off center, and when the rack is on center then the system pushes
neither way. Why can't electric systems produce the same type of
assist? Why are they necessarily numb? <br>
<br>
Feel free to ignore if this is too much for one day! :-)<br>
<br>
-steve<br>
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