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Electric Power Steering
Driver School Communicators
Electric Power Steering
Do you believe in underdrive pulleys? If you do not, then EPS is not for you.
When you need full throttle power down the straights, there are still parasitic losses in a belt driven hydraulic power steering pump. When you're powering out of a turn, you benefit from an underdrive pulley on that pump. Have you stopped to think about the benefits of EPS? BMW has put it in the Z4 and the MINI. Factory marketing for MINI claims a full 3% reduction in parasitic losses, and 3% improvement in fuel economy for the EPS unit they use. Look at a non-M version of the Z4... note the idler pulley where you usually see the PS pump.....they went to an electric steering column.
Your full blown race car runs a battery, it runs an alternator as well. Why not lose the PS pulley all together?
By Jan 07 I will be shipping complete kits. I am hoping to market these at $1000
These kits will include:
EPS pump with built in reservoir.
Low pressure return line with fittings to factory hose/cooler
High pressure hydraulic PS hose
Heavy duty steel plumbing adapters
Wire harness and instructions
Fuse and holder
Competing products do not offer complete kits or ease of installation. I will also be working on supplying hardware for easy bolt in installation, but that may be an optional kit at addtional expense. Placement of the pump is meant to be under the hood with supplied plumbing. Custom length hoses can be designed, along with bulkhead fittings if a customer desires placement in the car, under the dash in the passenger footwell.
Weight of the PS unit and harness is 1 lb more than the factory belt driven pump & reservoir combination. This new system weighs almost 2 lb less than the MINI pump alone without including the reservoir or bracketry or significantly higher complexity of plumbing that comes with that unit. Depending on interest, we may supply an option to the horrific factory oil cooler system.... but that depends on demand.
Driver School Communicators
This product is currently available for E36 coupes and sedans. It replaces the factories central ashtray and allows the driver and student to plug in to the car. The communicator will run off the cars battery. Volume and on off switches are easily accessable.
The primary advantages to this system are that you will not have the communicator bouncing around in the car, nor will the the volume suddenly cut out or decrease as the instructor holds on for dear life. A side benefit is that we re-wire the flimsy earphones and microphones to have a sturdy plug and wire.
Photo's will be posted shortly. (yeah, well, not so much apparently!) |
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