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Take the belt of your pump and take the car for a drive, it aint fun, cars that didnt have powersteering from factory have different ratios in the steering, swapping over all that seems like alot of work for no real gain, what would the weight advantage be ? I wouldnt think more than 5 kg lost, others may have a better view on this but I cannot see it myself.

Mark

Take the belt of your pump and take the car for a drive, it aint fun, cars that didnt have powersteering from factory have different ratios in the steering, swapping over all that seems like alot of work for no real gain, what would the weight advantage be ? I wouldnt think more than 5 kg lost, others may have a better view on this but I cannot see it myself.

Mark

Hey mate cheers.

So drift cars that have deleted p/s just have it done for weight reduction?

I dont know why mate, thats all I could think of, the way they switch angles or whatever its called would require some serious turnage, I would think power would help,plus Im bored at home and threw my 2 cents in.

BTW I dont really like drift, I cannot see the point, sorry.

Happy days, Mark

I dont know why mate, thats all I could think of, the way they switch angles or whatever its called would require some serious turnage, I would think power would help,plus Im bored at home and threw my 2 cents in.

BTW I dont really like drift, I cannot see the point, sorry.

Happy days, Mark

Haha all good mate thanks for your input.

NSW Exec...nice :thumbsup:

If your in Sydney come to one of our track days or khanas, it will make drift seem unimportant, this is only my view and is not the view of blah blah blah.....plus where can you drift now, since Oran Park shut there isnt to many places to go, alot of the young guys at work have turned their driftpigs into grip cars and are now chasing times not tyres.

You now have another 2 cents, if I keep this up Ill need to get a second job.

Mark.

wieght reduction, fast and accurate response, extra feel.

The power steering pump weights bugger all.

The response of your steering is unaffected - it is just the effort to get the wheels to turn is less with power steering.

Feel is fine with Skyline steering.

What power steering does allow is to maintain a reasonable wheel weight whilst running fully sik & hektic castor angles that the drift nuggets appear to enjoy. It is hard to be subtle with the steering when you need arms like Popeye to get the thing to turn.

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I would have to say probably 95% of nissan (skyline, silvia, cefiro etc) drift cars I've seen both in aus and in japan from basic street level drifters through to D1 cars still have the power steering intact. possibly guys with little AE86s etc remove it but on a silvia or skyline you are better off with it. some may have problems with cavitation from sustained high revs and fluid boiling from lots of wheel action but that is easily cured with an oversize pulley and a power steering oil cooler. both of which are good ideas for a drift car. but yeah keep it.

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I would have to say probably 95% of nissan (skyline, silvia, cefiro etc) drift cars I've seen both in aus and in japan from basic street level drifters through to D1 cars still have the power steering intact. possibly guys with little AE86s etc remove it but on a silvia or skyline you are better off with it. some may have problems with cavitation from sustained high revs and fluid boiling from lots of wheel action but that is easily cured with an oversize pulley and a power steering oil cooler. both of which are good ideas for a drift car. but yeah keep it.

+1 That's all a bloke could ask for. Cheers mate

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I would have to say probably 95% of nissan (skyline, silvia, cefiro etc) drift cars I've seen both in aus and in japan from basic street level drifters through to D1 cars still have the power steering intact. possibly guys with little AE86s etc remove it but on a silvia or skyline you are better off with it. some may have problems with cavitation from sustained high revs and fluid boiling from lots of wheel action but that is easily cured with an oversize pulley and a power steering oil cooler. both of which are good ideas for a drift car. but yeah keep it.

Anyone know where to find a power steering oil cooler for an R32 GTR? After a session at wakefield the reservoir for the power steering kept boiling over. apparently a power steering cooler can fix this. Any other ideas?

Anyone know where to find a power steering oil cooler for an R32 GTR? After a session at wakefield the reservoir for the power steering kept boiling over. apparently a power steering cooler can fix this. Any other ideas?

yeah try a wrecker if you want to do it cheap. pinch an auto trans cooler from something, or even a motorbike oil cooler will work. get one with barbed ends if you can. makes it easy to fit. otherwise there are plenty of cores getting around new. from cheap basic ones to mega $$$ ARC ones. it doesn't need to be huge either. small ones make a big difference.

Anyone know where to find a power steering oil cooler for an R32 GTR? After a session at wakefield the reservoir for the power steering kept boiling over. apparently a power steering cooler can fix this. Any other ideas?

You could use an R33 auto trans cooler or an aftermarket trans cooler from supercr*p or ripco etc.

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