Lude Generation

Well I just have a few questions, well ideas really. I feel the steering on the prelude is over sensitive,

No.1 if a larger pully is on the pump will this reduce sensitivity?

No.2 would a smaller diameter insert along the lines reduce sensitivity?

No.3 would shimming the blades inside the pump reduce sensitivity also?

No.4 Would different tyres/wheels negate the need for all of the above?

Possibly but I'm running 205/50/16s I'd rather have 45 but our roads aren't overly great.

only found this with mine at speed on motorways as oem spoilers are useless all stopped when better spoiler fitted with function rather than looks fitted

Dbo wrote:only found this with mine at speed on motorways as oem spoilers are useless all stopped when better spoiler fitted with function rather than looks fitted

Yea I sappose down force would make a big improvement,

Sometimes when I get out first thing on a cold morning everything feels lovely and tight but a good few miles in it starts to feel a tad lose again, I could very well need a power steering flush but I thought I'd ask those few questions to see if it was possible, I'm most likely going to remove the power steering but I hear there can be slight play in the steering wheel before it actually turns.

Do you have 4ws?

I don't man, everything under the car is spot on, I just thought preludes are known for over sensitive steering, or easy steering, that big boat steering wheel doesn't help lol.

the other thing that ade mine twitchy and light aswell was the drop links the oem ones died and the ebay aftermarket ones are a thinner bar that seem to give. so found a scrapper with very good oem's and felt a lot better
really want to upgrade to heavy duty front and rear stabilizer bars and arb's

no power steering on track must be nice for feedback but on a daily driver it is heavy as hell and i dread to think the extra pressure on the rack the old rack and pinion's we made for this and a lot tougher but without uprating the rack would this not tend to wear or damage it plus extra stress on all ball joints and track rod ends

DaveyBa8 wrote:Well I just have a few questions, well ideas really. I feel the steering on the prelude is over sensitive,

No.1 if a larger pully is on the pump will this reduce sensitivity?

No.2 would a smaller diameter insert along the lines reduce sensitivity?

No.3 would shimming the blades inside the pump reduce sensitivity also?

You got the wrong gen Prelude. I found this an issue with the 4th Gen but not the 3rd or 5th.

I've put blue print drop links on front and rear, blue print top wishbones, balljoints, bushings are ok, but its just the steering itself,

Don't get me wrong I will happily live with it, if I was to rid the power steering I'd go the full hog and open up the rack, the same that's in the how to on here. I've a spare rack so if I don't like it I will stick it all back together. Thanks for the comments by the way