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It only draws 75 amp when held at full lock...basically hydro-locking the pump, under normal driving it would never draw more than around 20 amps...
Holding any PS pump, belt driven or electric at full lock is REALLY hard on the pump...and there is really no reason to ever have to anyway.
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eeesh.... There is one MR2 P/S pump on ebay for 200 plus 30 for shipping. Any other cars some to mind?
New For Sale: 1 perfect power steering pump from a 1992 SVX $230
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When I checked car-parts.com earlier they had one from an xt-6 for $40
Dunno if it works, or is complete... If the main reason for doing this is to free up some power from drag how much in theory are we talkin here? Most of my planned time/money on mods for this year is alotted to suspension. But I always like learning from the work of others.
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You gain a few horsepower. I think we gained .2 seconds by deleting p/s on the 1/4 at grassroots. Somewhat noticable freer revs when my PS blew a leak at the dragon this past summer.
Sick if you read my post I gave you suggestions on ones to look for but I guess that wasn't important. Remember $25ish for a quart of fluid if you can still get it as there was only a couple bottles left in the US last time I saw. You'd definately need more than the pump which is why I said figure out who has an XT6 locally from car-part.com and go from there. BTW I've had mine locked and the current drop isn't even noticable on the voltmeter of my 6. Most notice you get is when you turn the wheel slightly while not moving. 75amps seems like a lot based on the wiring that is there!
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This really took .2 off os your 1/4 though? That would be pretty good for less than a couple hundred bucks. Plus I want to see if after this if I can move the alternator to the original P/S location (I'm not ready to give up AC just yet). Doing this will clear up the middle for a S/C snout
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The PS Location has a hard water pipe, and the oil pressure sender that is in the way (I looked at doing it for FrankenWedge...it won't go)
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Both of mine could be daily drivers though. Not stripped out race cars. When the day comes and I graduate and I can get a really nice pearlie then the silver will start to have a lot of the "creature comforts" pulled out
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So could ours if we had street legal tires, lightbulbs in it and a DOT seatbelt. Its actually more legal then most modded street SVXi our there. I was just saying you won't see nearly the power gains we did as we simply deleted the belts and ran it (i.e. no alt or ps pump). Biggest problem you'll encounter is lack of speed variable steering which is something I personally wouldn't want on a street car. It'd be like driving a Bel Air at 75mph on the twisties with Power steering.. Not the most confident of steering system and quite twitchy and vague. For a race car its a decent set up as you can make power to the pump variable so with a flick of a switch you can go from 100% power (getting around grid and on and off trailer), 50% power for autoxing and low speed driving and 25% power for track. I think if I remember correctly the XT6 uses something like 5 or 6 sensors to determine the rate at which the pump pushes fluid.
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Sick,
Everything is not honky-dory (Did I spell that right?) with those power steering motors. They will have to be opened up and cleaned every now and then. The power steering fluid can be expensive to some and the brushes need to be replaced when they are worn. Not a big deal if you like to tinker with your car and these can be done quickly. A bigger deal to someone who just likes to drive, drive, drive after a mod is done. All I'm saying is that it does go bad and just needs a little TLC to get it back going again. Brushes are cheap too.
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