Many moons ago, I had the unfortunate opportunity to autocross an '85 GTi 2.0L 16v with manual steering. While the car was a relative rocket due to the monstrous cams, the ratio of the manual steering rack made the car more than a challenge to hustle around the course. So much so that it put a serious hurting on my shoulder joints (must have been a premature arthritic condition or something).
FWIW, I still have p/s in my race car. While it's not necessary to have the instant response that's necessary at an autocross, the p/s makes the car a bit easier to drive and I think I can live with the ~2 hp that the p/s pump drains from the engine. All in all, unless you intend to use the car strictly as a track car and are willing to live with a slightly slower steering response, stick with the p/s setup. --- Ed Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a beater 1985 Golf with AC (that does not work) > and manual steering. > > Other than parallel parking - its fine. > It *is* an arm workout parallel parking - but IMHO its > acually *easier* to park (other than the workout part) > as you can feel the tire scrub better. You also learn > to "roll" the car slightly to lessen the workout. ===== Matthew Yip http://www.geocities.com/mgyip/ '81 Rabbit diesel - '87 GTi 16v "General Li" - '88 M5 - '99 F350 psd __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
