I run depowered as well. I daily my car and do lots of parking lots/parallel parking. 16x7's up front with 225 rubber. I love it! The steering feel you gain alone is worth the conversion. I don't actually find low speeds that hard either... Theres sort of a magic speed under 5 or so MPH where the steering becomes very easy. Just have to find your sweet spot. Good luck.

 

I run 17x8 on 225 and 17x9 on 255 currently.... Plan to go 275 in the rear later.

 

I ran a depowered rack for a year. Its not so bad outside of very tight corners and of course parking lot stuff.

I recently went back to power. I do miss the steering feel but I feel in much more control of the car. Now I can make corrections or make precise turns without stressing my arms or having to shuffle steer.

I have 255s on the front though

 

Ooo your arms must be hulk like from that year of turning

 

Yep - honestly I think the PS is overly-stigmatized and unless you have some major issue with the system, it works nicely

 

Great comments guys. Post up the pdf file so I can save it.

 

Should still work
https://rennlist.com/forums/924-931-...ower-rack.html

 

We just swapped over my manual rack from my last car over to my new one. Mmm. Yessssss. I didn't realize the totalled car came with a true manual rack until we started tearing into it, and yay--that's a happy find. Otherwise, we were looking to depower it.

I'm hoping it's one fewer thing to leak and/or fail.

 

Thinking about it now. I do have 225s on the front and a smaller than factory steering wheel.

Still not that bad. But I also live in the country.

 

I have a depowered rack and it is a bitch in parking lots. Easy on grass and gravel at low speeds, but not asphalt. You will have to leave your purse behind when driving this thing.

On the upside, there is alot less clutter under the car. Easier to drop the crossmember and easier to get to the oil cooler. I would wait to depower it until you have to drop the oil pan. You will need a new pickup tube/rod bearings/piston rings someday.

 

I have heard that driving a powered steering vehicle with the PS not working isn't a great idea because the steering linkage before the power steering can be much lighter duty because it isn't required to do as much work as manual steering linkage and therefore putting all that extra stress on the lighter duty linkage can lead to it wearing out a lot faster because it is not designed to be under that much load.

Well thats what I was told when I was driving an 85 K10 with no power steering, I don't know if this is true in general much less applicable to a 944..
Anyone know?

 

I took my 944S out on it's first PCA event and sure enough the PS was leaking too much. I'm going to convert too. For now I just pulled the belt off. Driving it slow is more work but I can get used to it quickly. I'll do the proper conversion later on.

Chris

 

In New York, a depower power steering system is reason to fail state inspection.

 

reading stuff like this sometimes makes me glad im in CA

there are no inspections other than smog every 2 years...in fact the only inspection a car really ever goes through is if you are re-registering a salvage or non-op car and they do a "brake and light" test, basically checking if the brakes work, all the lights work, and the horn works...lol

 

In New York OBD 1 and below is now safety only. It was only 5 years ago anything less than 25 years old was ran on a dyno.