moving steering coloumn

[benji]

i want to move my steering coloumn down a bit and to the side so it actually sits infront of me, has anyone else done this? and would it cause any problems?

thanks

ben.

[Chris]

it shouldnt cause any problems Ben, and will be very easy indeed in yours due to having no dash board. I would imagine that it will require the lugs removing from the bulk head and some brackets making to move it to the desired position.

Chris

[Rexy]

Have a look on the bracket they use for lowering the mini's steering.

[Stuart]

if your going to move it so it sits infront and inline with you then id suggest getting a pair of steering column UJ's (from tweeks) and then adding an extra bar in the column so that you get all teh angles right.

[-tucny-]

im sure someone put some pics up of there car a few months back. they had put a corsa dash in and moved the steering column over instead of cutting and sticking the dash back together. cant quite remember who it was, may have a look in a bit.

[Adam Moran]

Silly question but why doesnt it sit infront of you now??

Mine does :?

[MARTIN KELSON]

If you got bucket seats, whot i did was cut a section out of the centre tunnel and box it back in to retain the strength and actually move the seat more to the centre so you sit straight infront of the wheel. Got some pics but dont know how to host them, can mail em and you host em?
Fitted the electric power steerin column to so moved that around a bit so now its about as good as it gets for a Nova.

[-tucny-]

Silly question but why doesnt it sit infront of you now??

Mine does :?

you sure about that????

[benji]

Silly question but why doesnt it sit infront of you now??

Mine does :?

no nova wheel sits right. and i've lowered my seat so its even worse now.


Martin, don't get what you mean mate? whats involved with power steering? and how much am i looking at it costing me?

[MARTIN KELSON]

Benji,
Was looking last night. Its actually the strenghening beem going across just infront of the gear lever that i cut a section out so i could move the seats more towards centre.
Power steering was pretty easy to do. (if i can do it anybody can)
Column from a Corsa B with the electric motor cost about ?100.
The expensive part is the ECU for it needs to be modified by Harry Hockly to remove the speed sensitive sensors and they put a pot in to adjust the sensitivity and that was about ?200. Can be done by a place up north but no pot to adjust for about ?75 i think.
Well worth the effort. Mine with 2.0 16v, quick rack and quaife diff was really heavy to drive and now its a breeze. With you tracking yours alot it would be worth doing mate.

[benji]

i am breaking a corsa b with power steering so the coloumn not a problem, but i'm not into paying ?200 for the ecu.

how does the coloumn mount? same as before? and why does the ecu need modifing?

[Stuart]

the ecu has all kinds of speed sensitive coding in it to adjsut the level of assistance it give at varying speed.

if you have no speed signal going into i then i belive the FMEM actions state that the assitance stops.... but dont quote me lol.

i guess if you found out what the signal from the abs module looked like you could add a 555 timer into teh circuit to smimulate the sped signal etc.


also, when i sai di moved my seat to suit teh column you whinged about the pedals being "out" so why not whinge to martin too lol

[MARTIN KELSON]

I had an e-mail while ago and was given Walden Engineering and Nigel as a contact on 01339 881100 for moddin the ecu. I was told ?75+vat. Dont know if this is still valid but might be worth a call.
The mail was actually from Big Russ via Dave France (Fearless on this forum)
If you cumin to Trax your welcome to take a look at my car and see whots involved.
Mounts the same as Nova colum but needs spacing down slightly. Really is quite easy to do.

[Aragorn]

benji mate only later corsas had the electric column so have a look first

later cars have a standard manual rack with an electrically assisted column
larger engined later cars have a proper PAS rack but the PAS pump is electric
early cars have normal PAS rack and belt driven pas pump

u need the first one

was only fitted to 1.0 and 1.2 16v corsas as far as i can tell