anybody tried the corsa steering column conversion?
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What are people's opinions on this - good/bad?

If anyone had it how has it dealt with the torque steer?

cheers

i was looking at this but they are fairly heavy lumps. although if it really does help then it could be worth while.

another thing to look at is the punto EPS because the corsa one needs its own ecu which needs an input from the cars ecu to alter the sensitivity with speed so you will need to get it programmed to operate without it. However fiat were to lazy to develop this so they just stuck in a "city button" which makes it lighter instead on automatically doing it with speed.

the punto one sounds like a better option to me when looking at it!

is this the mk1 punto column?

mk2. i dont think they did the electric ones in the mk1

i had a look on ebay and all mk2 punto ones had an ecu - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mk2-Fiat-Punto-Elect...1QQcmdZViewItem

Does anyone know if this would help torque steer? Becasue thats the only reason im interested in it?

Edited by bertieboo on 30th Mar, 2008.

yeh they have an ecu but you dont need to get it coded to work without the cars ecu. they just use a button to adjust sensitivity.

torque steer can be helped with good geometry!

Mine doesnt really torque steer at all with a few ponies going through the front wheels.

the different column wont help, might mask it a bit but i wouldnt bank on it.

Exactly what iain said!!!!

If your still planning on a corsa column ring Watsons as hes got one on his rally car with a knob to adjust the sensitivity and an sure hes done a customers aswell

Rick

yeh you can get those little boxes off ebay that you plug into the ecu, but last time i looked (about a year ago) they were around £100