Thanks for putting the pics up Ray, its great to see someone of your caliber on our forum. I hope we get to see more of your work. Even some of the boats haha.
I'm not a fan of electric power steering on these new cars i.e Toyota that use it but they have a weird system that has been known to fail and cause problems, like when we do a wheel alignment vsc and trc lights come on and have to recalibrate steering. But Toyota uses some thing so steering sensitivity on highway is reduced and then in car parks it turns the lower half of the steering shaft more so than the top that you are actually turning, but I doubt you would be using anything like this.
"Not all commodore drivers are wankers, but all wankers drive commodores"
The EPAS is from a GM car. Not sure what model. There are no problems.
It comes with a potentiometer (knob) that lets you adjust the assistance. You can also order it will a ECU that adjusts the assistance with speed. This was quite expensive, so I made my own little controller and PC software to adjust the settings. I will be selling these to others. This is what the software looks like.
Looking forward to it...
Ah ok, well there has just been a couple of cases in Australia that I have been told about at toyota training with the electric assist being two separate shafts not connected directly and there was one case of a rav 4 on the highway went to merge left and the car veered right, another was a yaris I think same deal went to turn right and ran up the gutter, but they do have a failsafe mode where it just locks the two shafts together, but unsure exactly how those two accidents occurred something to do with the yaw rate sensor.
"Not all commodore drivers are wankers, but all wankers drive commodores"
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