[orangeshannon]

Hi i was wondering what power steering upgrade is there for vitara's that are going to be running 35's?

[atari4x4]

35's on a Vit & still IFS?

[anastasios]

What is IFS?

[atari4x4]

IFS = Independent Front Suspension

[orangeshannon]

Nah live front end

[atari4x4]

Hydro

[orangeshannon]

Please explain more?

[got_bar_work]

Get a new pump and cooler from low range
If that's not enough get the box taped for hydro
It's where u use a ram from the diff to the drag link to help push it around
Or get the new pump and a box from another car
Finding one to fit is the problem

[Gwagensteve]

A Vitara box will turn 35's fine with a hot rodded pump. The biggest problem is that your steering is going to get [i]SLOOOOW/i]

Pay carful attention to pitman arm length vs steering arm length to avoid this.

If this gets too hard, the premium upgrade would be a LHD IFS hilux box.

I don't know how many people have experience with hydro assist on a road-driven car, but the research I have done indicates it does slow the steering down a bit. That would drive me mad, especially in a car that already had too-slow steering because of a mismatch between pitman arm length and steering arm length. I was pretty keen to try hydro assist but the loss of speed that I've heard is the norm wouldn't be acceptable for me. I like to carry some speed on fast dirt and slow steering is unacceptable.

Steve.

[DarkHorse]

Why LHD Lux Steve? They get upgrades in the states? Question is how much else needs to be sourced/fabbed/modded to get it in...

Anyone know of anything a bit easier/cheaper to find? Other than the LROR $200 pump, $45 pulley, $50 bracket, $40 reservoir, $130ish of plumbing, $60 cooler, $135 for a beefier arm, $35 bracket... what's that, nearly $700 That's not actually that bad...

Hydro sounds horribly inefficient to me, but I can't claim to have researched it much.

[christover1]

DarkHorse wrote:

Why LHD Lux Steve?

I think it is to do with fitting box on inside of chassis.
I think? hi lux is mounted outside?

This could all be BS, but sounds feasible

[Fatzook]

christover1 wrote:

DarkHorse wrote:

Why LHD Lux Steve?

I think it is to do with fitting box on inside of chassis.
I think? hi lux is mounted outside?

This could all be BS, but sounds feasible

Spot on.

It sits on the outer side of the left rail in LHD format. This is perfect for fitting to the inside of the right hand rail for RHD.

[orangeshannon]

oh ok thanks guys for your help i might just have a read about what there is to do if i just upgrade the power steering pump to the original box would that be good enough?

[31zook]

I thought an IFS lux had an inner chassis mounted box also.

[Gwagensteve]

Nope:



That's a LHD IFS box on a SAS swapped hilux.

[orangeshannon]

:O that looks like the way to go but where over here would i be able to get one do they have them down in vic?

[Gwagensteve]

Depending on the track width of the axle you are going to be running in the front, along with tyre size and rim offset, you might no need a LHD IFS hilux box - a RHD box might be fine.

LHD boxes are available from Trail Gear or Lowrange.

http://www.lowrangeoffroad.com/index.ph ... boxes.html

Steve.

[orangeshannon]

i think that i might be right about steering boxes i might be able to use the rhd as i think there should be plent of room to bolt it up be more the fact that it might get close to the engine i duno yet one thing at a time ay