My car has VAPS (Variable Assisted Power Steering) which uses vehicle speed (from tanny) and other info to determine the amount of power-steering (slow = more assist, fast = less). I only discovered this after yanking out the old EEC-IV and installing MS2.
I have two options:
#1 - Rip out the VAPS steering rack and install a reman non VAPS rack.
#2 - Hunt down the brains of VAPS and see if I can piggy back inputs it needs... (screwed if it's part of the EEC-IV).
Has anyone else had this issue?
Thanks
Adam
What to do with Variable Assisted Power Steering (VAPS)?
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Re: What to do with Variable Assisted Power Steering (VAPS)?
VAPS is self-contained and does not communicate with the ECU.
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Re: What to do with Variable Assisted Power Steering (VAPS)?
Thanks.Matt Cramer wrote:VAPS is self-contained and does not communicate with the ECU.