Electric Power Steering Swap: Prius Column in a Mustang!

[@hunterlogan2913]

Love your mods Mann! You're thinking out of the box. Not that it's novel but it's continual and gets you results.... Great work

[@RinerAutomotive]

Thanks. I want to try different stuff. Not everything may work out but won't know unless I try.

[@hunterlogan2913]

@@RinerAutomotive your wife, if I'm not mistaken, is getting Fast!

[@KitchinMotorsports]

I’m glad you do these video because I didn’t know anything about the Prius steering. I have a Volvo pump in my F100 and built my own controller for how much pressure I want but this seems way easier to do. Will have to finish the video now to see how much room is in there for this setup

[@RinerAutomotive]

Thanks. I looked into the Volvo pump but decided it wasn't right for me and what I do with the car. I'm hoping I can get the tuning figured out with the Prius column to work great for racing. The Saturn Vue is the other commonly used electric column. I believe it's rotated opposite of the Prius so maybe one of them will work for you.

[@nissansfinest3245]

This is dope because you have given me and idea to do this on a 300zx with a VH45 swap.

[@RinerAutomotive]

Electric power steering is going to help so many swaps

[@mchristr]

Thanks Stephen. This will certainly help the Coyote or Ecoboost swap folks if they choose to avoid hydraulics altogether.

[@RinerAutomotive]

Ah for sure. That's a good point.

[@rickmcnelly]

How did the ratio change work out? I just had a Golf R steering rack put in the Alltrack and it dropped from almost 3 turns lock to lock (linear) to just less than 2 turns lock to lock variable. Steering ramps up dramatically as you transition through 1/4 turn to 1/2 turn of the wheel. Will be wonderful at Autocross, my arms won’t be all crossed up anymore while trying to hit the paddle shifters.

[@RinerAutomotive]

I saw you just did that. I'll have to get more seat time before I know for sure but theoretically it should help. I'm now just over 2 turns lock to lock.

[@rickmcnelly]

@@RinerAutomotiveWoot!

[@DriftyBits]

Hell yeah pretty slick work@

[@RinerAutomotive]

Thanks

[@Mr110Dream]

Do you have a link to the conversion u joint from the column to 3/4”DD?

[@RinerAutomotive]

This is the one I bought. www.kartek.com/parts/steering-universal-joint-34-double-d-to-17mm-36-toyota-spline-for-our-electric-power-steering-kit.html

[@NoumanMalik-re5oy]

does it returns to center

[@RinerAutomotive]

Not currently but I think that is a controller issue

[@advbound8949]

​@RinerAutomotive this seems to be the main issue using this setup. Interested in a fix. I have the parts but haven't pulled the trigger because of this.

[@arrgorndenethor]

Very interesting, I wonder how it will feel, I hated my EPS on the 9th Gen civics I owned

[@RinerAutomotive]

That's the thing, every car is going to be set up different and have different EPS tuning. S550, Toyota 86, rx8 and many others have electric steering and are known to be great handlers

[@arrgorndenethor]

@@RinerAutomotive it wasn't the handling that I disliked, it was the non existent feedback, but this was a Honda

[@RinerAutomotive]

Ah gotcha. Yea that could be alignment as well as how the EPS is programmed.