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What to do with Variable Assisted Power Steering (VAPS)?

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:23 pm
by FordTaurusGuy
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

Re: What to do with Variable Assisted Power Steering (VAPS)?

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:56 am
by Matt Cramer
VAPS is self-contained and does not communicate with the ECU.

Re: What to do with Variable Assisted Power Steering (VAPS)?

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:33 am
by FordTaurusGuy
Matt Cramer wrote:VAPS is self-contained and does not communicate with the ECU.
Thanks.