Good lord power steering sucks power!

[87DXHatch]

I was sitting in my 'Cord letting it warm up when, for no reason, I turned the wheel a little bit. My RPM's dropped a little and I remembered someone saying to take off the power steering belt for more power. So I kept cranking the wheel. All in all the RPMS dropped about 250-350!! That power steering motor must suck down a TON of power!

Well now I have a great way to be a little bit easier on my transmission... crank wheel and put 'er in gear!:smokin:

[89AccordNate]

250 rpms? Uhm, thats not anything worth moistening your panties over. If it was such a power sucker then why would they make cars with power steering? And I would rather lose a meer 250 rpms (who notices a loss of 250 rpms anyway) then have to use my ass muscles to turn the damn wheel into a parking space.

Nate.

[87DXHatch]

Well I'm not complaining. My brother cracked the power steering fluid case on his '85 Prelude and it is an absolute pain to try to wrench around. I was just saying that that seems like a lot of power.

I suppose I would really care only if I had to squeeze every bit of performance I could out of the Accord.

[1989 DX R]

Actually Nate, some people who bought the reallllllllly base level DXes had the option to have no P/S so Honda had a different geared steering box which handles about the same with a bit more effort.

[CARBurn]

Good, so I can just go to a junk yard and find one of those DX's with the manual steering box.

I had manual steering with my 86 civic Si and I was fine with it. So I just drained my p/s and removed the motor and belt, but If I can find an Accord in the junkyard with manual steering, I'll just try to swap that into my Accord.

[PhydeauX]

Its only sucking power when you're turning the steering wheel. Notice that the rpms only drop when you turn the wheel and then rise back when you stop.

andy

[lostforawhile]

delete please, thanks

[87DXHatch]

Sweet shit, I was 16 when I made that post... pay attention to date stamps next time ;-)

[NXRacer]

hah hah good ol revial from the dead thread

[88accordhb]

delete please, thanks

you sir, need to stop! just stop with this nonsense. it's driving me and everyone else nuts! every one or 2 days, it's another thread from the 60's being brought back to life.

[88Accord-DX]

Lostforwhile is in the twilight zone. LOL Time-traveler

[frankie89]

werd..its kindof weird cuz these threads are by members with activity of 0% which means they aint even around no more..

you sir, need to stop! just stop with this nonsense. it's driving me and everyone else nuts! every one or 2 days, it's another thread from the 60's being brought back to life.

[carotman]

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